Historical earthquake activity of the northern part of the Dead Sea Fault Zone, southern Turkey

Tectonophysics

Volumn 426, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 281-293

  Akyuz, H Serdar ^a   Altunel, Erhan ^b   Karabacak, Volkan ^b   Yalciner, C Caglar ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Dead Sea Fault Zone; Historical earthquake; Palaeoseismology; Southern Turkey; Trench

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT ZONE; HISTORICAL RECORD; NEOTECTONICS; PALEOSEISMICITY; TRENCH;

ASIA; DEAD SEA RIFT; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; TURKEY;

EID: 33749986994     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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