Paleoseismology

The southern Wadi 'Arabah Valley in Jordan provides an ideal location to investigate both the paleoseismology and archaeoseismology of the region because it is situated directly along the active Dead Sea transform, and because the area has a long history of human occupation. The…

The behavior of major active faults at various temporal and spatial scales is one of the most fundamental, unresolved problems in modern tectonics. Determining the degree to which fault loading and strain release rates are constant (or non-constant) and documenting past earthqua…

Paleoseismologic trenches excavated across the North Anatolian fault in Turkey are used to characterize the spatial-temporal pattern of seismic moment release on this plate-bounding strike-slip fault. Trenches at Alayurt reveal evidence for at least four (possibly five) surface …