Estimating location and size of historical earthquake by combining archaeology and geology in Umm-El-Qanatir, Dead Sea Transform

Natural Hazards

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-43

  Wechsler, Neta ^a,b   Katz, Oded ^c   Dray, Yehoshua ^d   Gonen, Ilana ^d   Marco, Shmuel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d Restoration of Ancient Technology   (Israel)

Author keywords

Archaeoseismology; Dead Sea transform; Historical earthquakes; Landslides; Peak ground acceleration

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LANDSLIDE; PALEOSEISMICITY; PEAK ACCELERATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLOPE STABILITY;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 67649388153     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-008-9315-6     Document Type: Article

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