Long-term earthquake clustering: A 50,000-year paleoseismic record in the Dead Sea Graben

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 6179-6191

  Marco, Shmuel ^a,c   Stein, Mordechai ^a   Agnon, Amotz ^a   Ron, Hagai ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b The Institute for Petroleum Research and Geophysics Israel   (Israel)

^c Geological Survey of   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; HOLOCENE; PALAEOSEISMICITY; PLEISTOCENE; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SEISMITE;

MIDDLE EAST, DEAD SEA GRABEN;

EID: 0029775673     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95jb01587     Document Type: Article

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