1956 Chim earthquake

Earthquake 1956 Chim earthquake yes doublet 1956-03-16 19:32:43 1956-03-16 19:43:31 888079 888080 iscgemsup888079 iscgem888080 1956 03 16 21:32:43 5.3 w y 5.5 w y Lebanon 33.78 35.58 inline,title Lebanon 136 dead The 1956 Chim earthquake was a destructive multiple-shock event that occurred on March 16 in Lebanon along a strand of the Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system.Scientists predict large Lebanon earthquake looming http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/Mar/12/Scientists-predict-large-Lebanon-earthquake-looming.ashx#axzz22PstFPlX Patrick Galey March 12, 2010 The Daily Star The epicenter was located in the south of Lebanon in the Chouf District. Six thousand homes were destroyed and another 17,000 were damaged. The number of persons killed was 136.United States Earthquakes Rutlage J. Brazee William K. Cloud https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc40349/ 1956 United States Department of Commerce / United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 50 Tectonic setting The DST is a 1609 km us on long transform fault that runs in a mostly north–south direction from the northern end of the Red Sea along the Jordan Rift Valley to the Taurus Mountains complex in southern Turkey. The left-lateral fault zone marks the boundary of the Arabian plate and the Sinai-Levantine block and consists of multiple parallel faults.Sources of the large A.D. 1202 and 1759 Near East earthquakes M. Daeron Y. Klinger P. Tapponnier A. Elias E. Jacques A. Sursock Geology 2005 33 7 529 10.1130/G21352.1 http://www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/page_web/biblio/publication/Daeron_geology05.pdf 2005Geo....33..529D 2012-08-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303210117/http://www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/page_web/biblio/publication/Daeron_geology05.pdf 2016-03-03 dead As the fault moves through Lebanon and Syria the fault trace follows a restraining bend and splits into several strands that include the Serghaya, Rachaya, and Roum faults, as well as the prominent Yammouneh fault.Remote Earthquake Triggering along the Dead Sea Fault in Syria following the 1995 Gulf of Aqaba Earthquake (Ms = 7.3) http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/71/1/47.extract Randa Mohamad Abdul Nasser Darkal Dogan Seber Eric Sandvol Francisco Gomez Muawia Barazangi Seismological Research Letters 71 1 2000 48 10.1785/gssrl.71.1.47 2000SeiRL..71...47M 1813/5321 free subscription Earthquake The Roum fault runs for a length of 35 km us between the Hula basin the Awali river and is the westernmost strand of the fault system in that area. A paleoseismic trench investigation revealed that it may have been the source of the twin-shock event.Evidence of coseismic ruptures along the Roum fault (Lebanon): a possible source for the AD 1837 earthquake Tony Nemer Mustapha Meghraoui Journal of Structural Geology 28 8 2006 1483–1495 10.1016/j.jsg.2006.03.038 2006JSG....28.1483N The twin shocks were separated by less than fifteen minutes with the first event occurring at 19:32 and the second event at 19:43 hours. The initial shock was estimated to measure (w = 5.3) and the second event was rated (w = 5.5). See also Lebanon Earth sciences List of earthquakes in 1956 List of earthquakes in the Levant References Category:1956 in Lebanon Category:1956 earthquakes Category:March 1956 in Asia 1956 Chim