GPS measurements of crustal deformation across the southern Arava Valley section of the Dead Sea Fault and implications to regional seismic hazard assessment

Hamiel, Yariv; Masson, Frédéric; Piatibratova, Oksana; Mizrahi, Yaakov

doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2018.01.016

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“…Global Positioning System (GPS) observations along the southern and central sections of the DSF reveal slip rates ranging between 3.8 and 6.0 mm/year (Al-Tarazi et al, 2011;Hamiel et al, 2016Hamiel et al, , 2018Le Beon et al, 2008;Masson et al, 2015;McClusky et al, 2003;Reilinger et al, 2006;Saleh & Backer, 2015;Sadeh et al, 2012;Wdowinski et al, 2004). Al-Tarazi et al (2011) used GPS measurements and calculated a locking depth of 9 ± 5 km and a slip rate of 4.7 ± 0.4 mm/year for the entire JVF.…”

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Crustal Deformation across the Jericho Valley Section of the Dead Sea Fault as Resolved by Detailed Field and Geodetic Observations

Hamiel

Piatibratova

Mizrahi

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Geophysical Research Letters

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Detailed field and geodetic observations of crustal deformation across the Jericho Fault section of the Dead Sea Fault are presented. New field observations reveal several slip episodes that rupture the surface, consist with strike slip and extensional deformation along a fault zone width of about 200 m. Using dense Global Positioning System measurements, we obtain the velocities of new stations across the fault. We find that this section is locked for strike‐slip motion with a locking depth of 16.6 ± 7.8 km and a slip rate of 4.8 ± 0.7 mm/year. The Global Positioning System measurements also indicate asymmetrical extension at shallow depths of the Jericho Fault section, between 0.3 and 3 km. Finally, our results suggest the vast majority of the sinistral slip along the Dead Sea Fault in southern Jorden Valley is accommodated by the Jericho Fault section.

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Crustal Deformation across the Jericho Valley Section of the Dead Sea Fault as Resolved by Detailed Field and Geodetic Observations

Hamiel

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Mizrahi

et al. 2018

Geophysical Research Letters

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“…South of Lebanon, geodetic measurements show ∼ 4-5 mm yr −1 sinistral slip rate (Masson et al, 2015;Hamiel et al, 2016Hamiel et al, , 2018a. Faulting in Lebanon is partitioned to a few branches (Fig.…”

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“…Previous analyses of maximum earthquake magnitude based on historical earthquakes or on background seismicity predicted magnitudes of ≤ 7.8M w for the largest segments (e.g. Stevens and Avouac, 2017;Klinger et al, 2015;Hamiel et al, 2018a).…”

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“…At the northern section of the Jordan Valley long segment, section I is the least active part of the DST during the last ∼ 35 years. Shallow crust creep along the northern part of this segment at a rate of approximately half the total plate motion (Hamiel et al, 2016), and potential partitioning of the DST activity to the CTF (Sadeh et al, 2012;Hamiel et al, 2018b) might reduce the seismicity rate in section I (Fig. 6).…”

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“…This information can come from archaeological and paleo-seismological investigations, as well as from historical documents (Ambraseys, 2009;Agnon, 2014;Marco and Klinger, 2014;Zohar et al, 2016). Geodetic measurements of relative displacements and velocities provide further crucial kinematic information (Baer et al, 1999;Hamiel et al, 2016Hamiel et al, , 2018a.…”

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GPS measurements of crustal deformation across the southern Arava Valley section of the Dead Sea Fault and implications to regional seismic hazard assessment

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Crustal Deformation across the Jericho Valley Section of the Dead Sea Fault as Resolved by Detailed Field and Geodetic Observations

Crustal Deformation across the Jericho Valley Section of the Dead Sea Fault as Resolved by Detailed Field and Geodetic Observations

Assessment of seismic sources and capable faults through hierarchic tectonic criteria: implications for seismic hazard in the Levant

Characterizing the Spatial Patterns of Vertical Crustal Deformations Over the South American Continent Based on GNSS Imaging

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