12,000-year-long record of 10 to 13 paleoearthquakes on the Yammoûneh fault, levant fault system, Lebanon

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 749-771

  Daëron, Mathieu ^a   Klinger, Yann ^a   Tapponnier, Paul ^a   Elias, Ata ^a,b   Jacques, Eric ^a   Sursock, Alexandre ^b  

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

^b NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORMATION; LAKES; SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN; TECTONICS;

LAKE BEDS; LEVANT FAULT SYSTEM; PALEOEARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAULT SLIP; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMOGRAM; STRATIGRAPHY;

ASIA; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 34347228705     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060106     Document Type: Article

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