Archaeology in Jordan, 2002 Season

Savage, Stephen H.; Zamora, Kurt A.; Keller, Donald R.

doi:10.3764/aja.107.3.449

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“…6; Al-Taj, 2000;Ferry et al, 2007), Tell Abu en-Ni'aj appears to be west and off the main active trace by ∼1 km. Savage et al (2003) do not provide details about the amount or intensity of deformation along that fault, and it is presently not possible to decide whether the observed offsets are related to coseismic fault slip. At Khirbet Iskander, located ∼30 km southeast of the JVF (Fig.…”

Section: Archaeoseismologymentioning

confidence: 94%

“…• Event W A : At Tell Saidiyeh, Tubb (1988) documents dense destruction debris associated with fragmentary and disturbed architecture and indicates these are consistent with ground-shaking-related damage (J. N. Tubb, personal comm., 2005). At the nearby Tell el-Fukhar site, Savage et al (2003) mention evidence of intense destruction to walls and infer a possible earthquake-related origin. Proposed date: ∼2900 B.C.…”

Section: Archaeoseismologymentioning

confidence: 96%

“…"earthquake storm" studied by many authors and summarized by Nur and Cline (2000). Proposed date: ∼1150 B.C.. • Event X A : This event is documented at Tell Abu en-Ni'aj by Savage et al (2003) as a series of ash layers offset by a fault splay. According to our mapping of the JVF (Fig.…”

Section: Archaeoseismologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a recent review, Ambraseys (2006) underlines the different caveats pertaining to the use of archaeological evidence to identify past earthquakes and particularly to the interpretation of toppled structures. We follow Ambraseys's guidelines in making our interpretations of existing archaeological data from Tubb (1988 and1998), Savage et al ( , and 2003, and Franken (1989) and retain the most robust evidence to identify destruction events that may be attributed to past earthquakes.…”

Section: Archaeoseismologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At Khirbet Iskander, located ∼30 km southeast of the JVF (Fig. 6), Savage et al (2003) describe a destruction layer in great detail (Table 2), where fire was attested by burnt stones, ash layers, and charred grain. Well-preserved wooden beams and human remains suggest a sudden possibly earthquake-related catastrophe.…”

Section: Archaeoseismologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Episodic Behavior of the Jordan Valley Section of the Dead Sea Fault Inferred from a 14-ka-Long Integrated Catalog of Large Earthquakes

Ferry¹,

Meghraoui²,

Karaki³

et al. 2011

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

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International audienceAbstract The continuous record of large surface-rupturing earthquakes along the Dead Sea fault brings unprecedented insights for paleoseismic and archaeoseismic research. In most recent studies, paleoseismic trenching documents the late Holocene faulting activity, while tectonic geomorphology addresses the long-term behavior (>10 ka), with a tendency to smooth the effect of individual earthquake rupture events (Mw >7). Here, we combine historical, archaeological, and paleoseismic investigations to build a consolidated catalog of destructive surface-rupturing earthquakes for the last 14 ka along the left-lateral Jordan Valley fault segment. The 120- km-long fault segment limited to the north and the south by major pull-apart basins (the Hula and the Dead Sea, respectively) is mapped in detail and shows five subsegments with narrow stepovers (width < 3 km). We conducted quantitative geomorphology along the fault, measured more than 20 offset drainages, excavated four trenches at two sites, and investigated archaeological sites with seismic damage in the Jordan Valley. Our results in paleoseismic trenching with 28 radiocarbon datings and the archaeoseismology at Tell Saydiyeh, supplemented with a rich historical seismic record, document 12 surface-rupturing events along the fault segment with a mean interval of ∼1160 yr and an average 5 mm=yr slip rate for the last 25 ka. The most complete part of the catalog indicates recurrence intervals that vary from 280 yr to 1500 yr, with a median value of 790 yr, and suggests an episodic behavior for the Jordan Valley fault. Our study allows a better constraint of the seismic cycle and related short-term variations (late Holocene) versus long-term behavior (Holocene and late Pleistocene) of a major continental transform fault

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Section: Archaeoseismologymentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Archaeoseismologymentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Archaeoseismologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Archaeoseismologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Archaeoseismologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Episodic Behavior of the Jordan Valley Section of the Dead Sea Fault Inferred from a 14-ka-Long Integrated Catalog of Large Earthquakes

Ferry¹,

Meghraoui²,

Karaki³

et al. 2011

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

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A 48-kyr-long slip rate history for the Jordan Valley segment of the Dead Sea Fault

Ferry

Meghraoui

Karaki

et al. 2007

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Long‐term slip history discriminates among occurrence models for seismic hazard assessment

Fitzenz

Ferry

Jalobeanu³

2010

Geophysical Research Letters

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Today, the probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA) community relies on stochastic models to compute occurrence probabilities for large earthquakes. Considerable efforts have been devoted to extracting information from long catalogs of large earthquakes based on instrumental, historical, archeological and paleoseismological data. However, the models remain only and insufficiently constrained by these rare single‐slip event data. Therefore, the selection of the models and their respective weights necessarily involves ruling by a panel of experts. Since cumulative slip data with high temporal and spatial resolution are now available, we propose a new approach to incorporate these pieces of evidence of mid‐ to long‐term fault behavior into PSHA: the Cumulative Offset‐Based Bayesian Recurrence Analysis (COBBRA). For the Dead Sea Fault, our method provides weights to the competing recurrence and rupture models, allows time‐independent models to be ruled out, and provides a means to compute the cumulative probability of occurrence for the next full‐segment event reflecting all available data.

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Archaeology in Jordan, 2002 Season

Cited by 5 publications

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Episodic Behavior of the Jordan Valley Section of the Dead Sea Fault Inferred from a 14-ka-Long Integrated Catalog of Large Earthquakes

Episodic Behavior of the Jordan Valley Section of the Dead Sea Fault Inferred from a 14-ka-Long Integrated Catalog of Large Earthquakes

A 48-kyr-long slip rate history for the Jordan Valley segment of the Dead Sea Fault

Long‐term slip history discriminates among occurrence models for seismic hazard assessment

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