The February 11, 2004 Dead Sea earthquake ML = 5.2 in Jordan and its tectonic implication

Tectonophysics

Volumn 422, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 149-158

  Al Tarazi, Eid ^a   Sandvol, Eric ^b   Gomez, Francisco ^b  

^a HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Dead Sea basin; Earthquakes; Macrointensity; Neotectonics

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; BASIN; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT; FOCAL MECHANISM; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NEOTECTONICS; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33746678741     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.05.010     Document Type: Article

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