The Ain Temouchent (Algeria) earthquake of December 22nd, 1999

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 607-621

  Yelles Chaouche, A K ^a   Djellit, H ^a   Beldjoudi, H ^a   Bezzeghoud, M ^b   Buforn, E ^c  

^a Centre de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Geophysique   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ain Temouchent (Algeria); Breaks; Damages; Focal mechanism; Seismic source

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; FOCAL MECHANISM; SEISMIC SOURCE;

AFRICA; AIN TEMOUCHENT; ALGERIA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 1542289575     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-003-2465-2     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. BENHALLOU, H. (1985), Les catastrophes sismiques de la région d'Echelif dans le contexte de la seismicité historique de l'Algèrie, Ph.D. Thesis, USTHB, Alger, 294 pp.
2. BENOUAR, D., AOUDIA, A., MAOUCHE, S., and Meghraoui, M. (1994), The 18 August 1994 Mascara (Algeria) Earthquake: A Quick Look Report, Terra Nova 6, 634-637.
3. BENOUAR, D. (1994), The Seismicity of Algeria and the Maghreb during the Twentieth Century, Ph.D. Thesis, Imperial College London, U.K.
4. BEZZEGHOUD, M., AYADI, A., SEBAI, A., AIT MESSAOUD, M., MOKRANE, A., and BENHALLOU, H. (1996), Seismicity of Algeria between 1365 and 1989 : Map of Maximum Observed Intensities (MOI), Advances en Geofisica y Geodesia, I, Pub. de IGN, (Madrid), 107-114.
5. BEZZEGHOUD, M. and BUFORN, E. (1999), Source parameters of the 1992 Melilla (Spain, Mw = 4.8), 1994 Alhoceima (Morocco, Mw = 5.8) and 1994 (Algeria, Mw = 5.7) Earthquakes and Seismotectonic Implications, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 89, 2, 359-372.
6. BRILLINGER, D.R., UDIAS, A., and BOLT, A. (1980), A probability model for regional focal mechanism solutions. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 70, 149-170.
7. BUFORN E., SANZ DE GALDEANO C., and UDIAS, A. (1995), Seismotectonics of the Ibero-Maghrebian Region, Tectonophysics 248, 247-261.
8. BUFORN, E., BEZZEGHOUD, M., UDIAS, A., and PRO, C. (2004), Seismic sources on the Iberia-African plate boundary and their tectonic implications. Pure. Appl. Geophys. this issue.
9. GLOBE Task Team and others (Hastings, David A., Paula K. Dunbar, Gerald M. Elphingstone, Mark Bootz, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Maruyama, Hiroshi Masaharu, Peter Holland, John Payne, Nevin A. Bryant, Thomas L. Logan, J.-P. Muller, Gunter Schreier, and John S. MacDonald), eds. (1999). The Global Land One-kilometer Base Elevation (GLOBE) Digital Elevation Model, Version 1.0, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Geophysical Data Center, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80303, U.S.A. Digital Data Base on the World Wide Web (URL: HYPERLINK http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globe.shtml) and CD-ROMs.
10. GUARDIA P. (1975), Géodynamique de la marge alpine du continent africain d'après l'étude de l'Oranie Nord-Occidentale, Ph.D. Thesis, Univiversité de Nice, France, 286 pp.
11. MCCAFFREY, R., ABERS, G., and ZWICK, P. (1991), Inversion of Teleseismic Body Waves, IASPEI, 81-166.
12. MEGHRAOUI, M. (1988). Gélogie des zones sismiques du nord de l'Algèrie: Paléosismologie, Tectonique active et Synthèse Sismotectonique, Ph.D. Thesis, Univiversité de Paris XI, France, 356 pp.
13. MOKRANE, A., AIT MESSAOUD, A., SEBAI., A. Menia., N. Ayadi., A. and BEZZEGHOUD, M. (1994), Les séismes en Algérie de 1365 à 1992. Sous la direction de Bezzeghoud M. et Benhallou H. Publication du CRAAG, Alger-Bouzaréah, 277pp.
14. NABELEK, J.-L. (1984), Determinations of Earthquake Source Parameters from Inversion of Body Waves. Ph.D. Thesis, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
15. PHILLIP, H. (1987), Plioquaternary Evolution of the Stress Field in the Mediterranean Zones of Subduction and Collision, Annales Geophysicae, 5B, 301-320.
16. ROUSSEL, J. (1973), Les zones actives et la fréquence des Seismes en Algerie (1716-1970), Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afr. Nord. Alger. t. 64. Fasc. 3 et 4, 211p.
17. TANIOKA, Y., and RUFF, L. (1997), Source time functions, Seism. Res. Lett. 68, 386-397.
18. THOMAS, G. (1985), Géodynamique d'un bassin intramontagneux, ; le bassin du bas Cheliff occidental (Algérie) durant le Mioplioquaternaire, Ph.D. Thesis, Université de Pau et Pays de l'Adour, France.
19. UDIAS, A. and BUFORN, E. (1988), Single and joint fault-plane solutions from first data in Seismological Algorithms, D. Doornbos (Editor) Academic, London, 443-453.
20. YELLES-CHAOUCHE, A.K., DJELLIT, H., DERDER, M., ABTOUT, A., and BELDJOUDI, H., (2000), The Ain Temouchent Earthquake of December 22 th,1999: Preliminary Investigations. XXVII General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission ESC. Lisbon, September.
21. YELLES-CHAOUCHE, A.K. (2001), Recent Seismic Activity in Algeria. Workshop on the Geodynamics of the Western Part of the Eurasia-Africa Plate Boundary (Azores-Tunisia) San Fernando (Cadiz, Spain), 31 May-2 June.
22. YIELDING, G., OUYED, M., KING, G. C. P., and HATZFELD, D. (1989). Active Tectonics of the Algerian Atlas Mountains: Evidence from Aftershocks of the 1980 El-Asnam Earthquake, Geophys. J. Int. 99, 761-788.