Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Seismic Activity Associated with the Dead Sea Transform (DST) during the Past 3000 Yr

• DOI: 10.1785/0220190124
• Publication Date: 2019-10-23T18:14:40Z
• Authors: Motti Zohar
• Keywords: Historical record

Abstract Historical reports of earthquakes occurring before the twentieth century along Dead Sea Transform (DST) are available for past 3000 yr. Most them organized in various catalogs, reappraisals, and lists. Using a comprehensive consistent compilation these reports, historical seismicity associated with DST as complete tectonic unit was examined. The compilation, supported by paleoseismic archeoseismic evidence, resulted 174 reliable 112 doubtful ones. earthquakes, 42 post‐nineteenth instrumental an up‐to‐date evaluation starting from mid‐eighth B.C.E. until 2015 C.E. Additionally, scenario such 363 1033 events resolved. characterization temporal spatial patterns seismicity, classifying into four geographical zones, raised that most northern destructive clustered while clustering at central southern zones is less abundant.