Active thrusting offshore Mount Lebanon: Source of the tsunamigenic A.D. 551 Beirut-Tripoli earthquake

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 755-758

  Elias, Ata ^a,b   Tapponnier, Paul ^a   Singh, Satish C ^a   King, Geoffery C P ^a   Briais, Anne ^c   Daëron, Mathieu ^d   Carton, Helene ^a   Sursock, Alexander ^b   Jacques, Eric ^e   Jomaa, Rachid ^b   Klinger, Yann ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b National Center for Geophysical Research   (Lebanon)

^c OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Lebanon; Submarine seismic breaks; Thrusts; Tsunami; Vermetid benches

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL BENCH; SUBMARINE EARTHQUAKES; VERTICAL SEPARATION;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TECTONICS;

TSUNAMIS;

DIP; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ESCARPMENT; HOLOCENE; MIOCENE; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEA LEVEL; SEAFLOOR; SHORELINE; THRUST; TSUNAMI;

ASIA; BEIRUT; BEYROUTH; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST; PHOENICIA;

NEIDES; VERMETIDAE;

EID: 34347221106     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23631A.1     Document Type: Article

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