HR: 1340h
AN: T43A-1084    [Abstracts]
TI: THE APAME PROJECT: ARCHEO-PALEOSEISMOLOGY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
AU: * Working Group, A
EM: mustapha@eost.u-strasbg.fr
AF: IPG Strasbourg, CNRS-UMR 7516, 5, rue René Desartes, Strasbourg, 67084, France
AB: The APAME EC project (Contract ICA3-CT-2002-10024) consists of multidisciplinary studies of seismically active regions along the Dead Sea Fault. Several medieval cities, citadels, fortresses and known archeological sites of the Middle East suffered of severe earthquake damage in the past. A repetition of similar seismic events nowadays will cause tremendous damage and destruction mainly due to the last century increase in population and modern constructions. In the APAME project, we combine historical, archeo-paleoseismological and earthquake hazard studies and provide an integrated analysis of their consequent seismic hazard. The results are: 1) An inventory with maps of archeological and cultural sites affected by past earthquakes and detailed archeoseismological and paleoseismological studies of some specific sites using precise dating techniques. 2) An analysis of damage distribution based on the historical archives, new documents and field investigations and preparation of updated sesimicity catalogue of past earthquakes. 3) Investigations of man-made constructions and building practices for each site with a comparison between heavily damaged and undamaged buildings. Striking results are ~ 40 m fault offset of a Tell site in the Amik Basin (Turkey), the severe earthquake damage in the remaining "lost villages" and ~ 13.6 m offset of a Roman Aqueduct in northern Syria, the trace of the 1837 and 1759 earthquake fault ruptures in southern Lebanon, and the constraint of fault slip rate using offset streams and paleoclimatic reconstructions along the Jordan Valley Fault. A fault segmentation is obtained from the compiled instrumental and historical earthquake catalogue and related damage distribution. The rich historical seismicity catalogue and fault segmentation combined with the tectonic and geodetic strain pattern along the DSF contribute to the characterization of rupture zones with a potential for a future large earthquake.
UR: http://apamea.u-strasbg.fr/
DE: 7221 Paleoseismology (8036)
DE: 7230 Seismicity and tectonics (1207, 1217, 1240, 1242)
DE: 7250 Transform faults
DE: 8036 Paleoseismology (7221)
DE: 8111 Continental tectonics: strike-slip and transform
SC: Tectonophysics [T]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting