Modeling of seismic guided waves at the Dead Sea transform

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Haberland, Christian ^a   Agnon, Amotz ^b   El Kelani, Radwan ^c   Maercklin, Nils ^a   Qabbani, Issam ^d   Rümpker, Georg ^a   Ryberg, Trond ^a   Scherbaum, Frank ^e   Weber, Michael ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c AN NAJAH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^d Natural Resources Authority   (Jordan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fault zone modeling; Guided waves; Seismology; Trapped waves

Indexed keywords

FAULT ZONE; MODELING; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; TRANSFORM FAULT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARAVA FAULT; DEAD SEA TRANSFORM; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0142166727     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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