Episodic behavior of the Jordan Valley section of the Dead Sea fault inferred from a 14-ka-long integrated catalog of large earthquakes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-67

  Ferry, Matthieu ^a   Meghraoui, Mustapha ^b   Karaki, Najib Abou ^c   Al Taj, Masdouq ^d   Khalil, Lutfi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b UMR 7063   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^d HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE; CONTINENTAL TRANSFORM; DEAD SEA; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; HOLOCENES; JORDAN VALLEY; LATE HOLOCENE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR; MEDIAN VALUE; PALEOSEISMIC TRENCHING; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SEISMIC DAMAGE; SEISMIC RECORDS; SHORT-TERM VARIATIONS; SLIP RATES; STEP-OVERS; SUBSEGMENTS; TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LIBRARIES; SEISMOLOGY; TRENCHING;

LANDFORMS;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; TECTONIC SETTING;

DEAD SEA RIFT; JORDAN VALLEY;

EID: 79251633449     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100097     Document Type: Article

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