Archeoseismology in mamshit (Southern Israel): Cracking a millennia-old code of earthquakes preserved in ancient ruins

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Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 51-82

  Korjenkov, Andrey M ^a   Mazor, Emanuel ^b  

^a Institute of Seismology NAS KR   (Kyrgyzstan)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

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