Slip deficit and temporal clustering along the Dead Sea fault from paleoseismological investigations.

ABSTRACT: Temporal distribution of earthquakes is key to seismic hazard assessment. However, for most fault systems shortness of large earthquake catalogues makes this assessment difficult. Its unique long earthquake record makes the Dead Sea fault (DSF) exceptional to test earthquake behaviour models. A paleoseismological trench along the southern section of the DSF, revealed twelve surface-rupturing earthquakes during the last 8000 years, of which many correlate with past earthquakes reported in historical chronicles. These data allowed us building a rupture scenario for this area, which includes timing and rupture length for all significant earthquakes during the last two millenaries. Extending this rupture scenario to the entire DSF south of Lebanon, we were able to confirm the temporal-clusteri

SUBMITTER: Lefevre M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5851983 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature