{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["10(11)"],"submitter":["Li X"],"pubmed_abstract":["Reported fault slip rates, a key quantity for earthquake hazard and risk analyses, have been inconsistent for the northern Dead Sea fault (DSF). Studies of offset geological and archeological structures suggest a slip rate of 4 to 6 millimeters per year, consistent with the southern DSF, whereas geodetic slip-rate estimates are only 2 to 3 millimeters per year. To resolve this inconsistency and overcome limited access to the northern DSF in Syria, we here use burst-overlap interferometric time-series analysis of satellite radar images to provide an independent slip-rate estimate of ~2.8 millimeters per year. We also show that the high geologic slip rate could, by chance, be inflated by earthquake clustering and suggest that the slip-rate decrease from the southern to northern DSF can be explained by splay faults and diffuse offshore deformation. These results suggest a microplate west of the northern DSF and a lower earthquake hazard for that part of the fault."],"journal":["Science advances"],"pagination":["eadj8408"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10942111"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Resolving the slip-rate inconsistency of the northern Dead Sea fault."],"pmcid":["PMC10942111"],"pubmed_authors":["Li X","Castro-Perdomo N","Masson F","Jonsson S","Ma Z","Liu S","Klinger Y","Cesca S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Resolving the slip-rate inconsistency of the northern Dead Sea fault.","description":"Reported fault slip rates, a key quantity for earthquake hazard and risk analyses, have been inconsistent for the northern Dead Sea fault (DSF). Studies of offset geological and archeological structures suggest a slip rate of 4 to 6 millimeters per year, consistent with the southern DSF, whereas geodetic slip-rate estimates are only 2 to 3 millimeters per year. To resolve this inconsistency and overcome limited access to the northern DSF in Syria, we here use burst-overlap interferometric time-series analysis of satellite radar images to provide an independent slip-rate estimate of ~2.8 millimeters per year. We also show that the high geologic slip rate could, by chance, be inflated by earthquake clustering and suggest that the slip-rate decrease from the southern to northern DSF can be explained by splay faults and diffuse offshore deformation. These results suggest a microplate west of the northern DSF and a lower earthquake hazard for that part of the fault.","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Mar","modification":"2025-04-04T20:18:11.681Z","creation":"2025-04-04T20:18:11.681Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10942111","cross_references":{"pubmed":["38489354"],"doi":["10.1126/sciadv.adj8408"]}}