Stress evolution and seismic hazard of the Dead Sea Fault System

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 257, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 299-312

  Heidbach, Oliver ^a   Ben Avraham, Zvi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coulomb failure stress; Dead Sea Fault; earthquake triggering; seismotectonics

Indexed keywords

COULOMB FAILURE STRESS; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; SLIP RATE; STATIC STRESS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRESS CHANGE;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 34247366423     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.042     Document Type: Article

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