The seismicity along the dead sea fault during the last 60,000 years

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 2020-2026

  Hamiel, Y ^a   Amit, R ^a   Begin, Z B ^a   Marco, S ^b   Katz, O ^a   Salamon, A ^a   Zilberman, E ^a   Porat, N ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAD SEA; HISTORICAL RECORDS; JORDAN VALLEY; LINEAR EXTRAPOLATION; NORMAL DISPLACEMENT; SEISMITES; SLIP RATES; STABLE MODES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP MOTION; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TIME-SCALES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LANDFORMS;

EARTHQUAKES;

DIP-SLIP FAULT; FAULTING; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 69549138405     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080218     Document Type: Article

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