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Anthropogenic "earthquakes" along the Dead Sea Fault in Lebanon
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Anthropogenic "earthquakes" along the Dead Sea Fault in Lebanon

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Judith A Hubbard
Mar 20, 2023
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A few weeks ago I looked at the Dead Sea Fault and noticed odd clusters of small earthquakes in Lebanon, persisting for years. Was this a feature of the fault system, I wondered?

No. A newly published paper gave me a hint.

The authors of the new paper ("A fault-based probabilistic seismic hazard model for Lebanon, controlling parameters and hazard levels"…

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