Paleoseismic evidence for time dependency of seismic response on a fault system in the southern Arava Valley, Dead Sea rift, Israel

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 192-206

  Amit, Rivka ^a   Zilberman, Ezra ^a   Enzel, Yehuda ^a   Porat, Naomi ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea rift; Elat fault zone; Maximum displacement; Normal faults; Paleoearthquake magnitudes; Recurrence intervals; Surface rupture

Indexed keywords

FAULT SEGMENTS;

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TECTONICS;

SEISMOLOGY;

FAULT ZONE; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

ISRAEL;

EID: 84879890832     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<0192:PEFTDO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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