Seismogenic Origin of the Ancient Avdat Ruins, Negev Desert, Israel

A. Korjenkov and E. Mazor

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 1998, vol. 18, issue 3, 193-226

Abstract: The present communication addresses the potential use of damage features, observed in the ancient ruins of the Avdat archeological site (Negev Desert, Israel) as a tool to identify the seismic origin of the destruction there and roughly to determine the direction of seismic wave propagation. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998

Keywords: earthquakes; historical seismicity; kinematic indicators; seismoarcheology; structural geology; ancient cities; ruins (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1023/A:1026488932377

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