A Paleoseismic Record of Earthquakes for the Dead Sea Transform Fault between the First and Seventh Centuries C.E.: Nonperiodic Behavior of a Plate Boundary Fault

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120130304" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120130304</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120130304" target="_blank" >10.1785/0120130304</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A Paleoseismic Record of Earthquakes for the Dead Sea Transform Fault between the First and Seventh Centuries C.E.: Nonperiodic Behavior of a Plate Boundary Fault
Original language description
We present new results from a paleoseismic trenching campaign at a site across the Jordan Gorge Fault (JGF), the primary strand of the Dead Sea Transform in northern Israel. In addition to the previously recognized earthquakes of 1202 and 1759 C. E., weobserve evidence for eight surface-rupturing earthquakes prior to the second millennium C. E. The past millennium appears deficient in strain release with the occurrence of only two large ruptures, when compared with the preceding 1200 years. Assuming Gutenberg-Richter magnitude-frequency distribution, there is a discrepancy between measured rate of small-magnitude earthquakes (M < 4) from instrumental records and large earthquake rates from paleoseismic records. The interevent time of surface-rupturingearthquakes varies by a factor of two to four during the past 2 ka at our site, and the fault's behavior is not time predictable. The JGF may be capable of rupturing in conjunction with both of its southern and northern neighboring segme
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
DB - Geology and mineralogy
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP210%2F12%2F0573" target="_blank" >GAP210/12/0573: Late Quaternary seismogenic faulting and evolution of fault-controlled sedimentary basins in the eastern Bohemian Massif</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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