14.03.17 Master of Sciences in geology Seismic activity in Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), Israel Contact person: Prof. Matteo Lupi, University of Geneva [email protected]; Context Lake Kinneret, otherwise known as the Sea of Galilee, Israel, sits upon the Dead Sea fault spanning some 1000 km from the Red Sea in the south to the Taurus Mountains in Turkey in the north (Hurwitz et al., 2002). Historical records, i.e. the Bible, describe the occurrence of large-magnitude seismic events affecting Galilee with magnitude estimated as high as Ml7.7. In the framework of an international collaboration between the University of Haifa, Israel, the Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics of Oslo, Norway, and the CNR of Bologna, Italy, this project will investigate the seismic activity around the Sea of Galilee. The goal of the collaborative scientific effort is to acquire geophysical and geochemical data to monitor the seismic activity in the basin. The MSc candidate will travel to Israel to deploy the seismic network and describe the on-going seismic activity of the area with a high-resolution network to delineate major fault systems. Seismic data will be compared to geochemical studies to point out major geochemical variations after major seismic events. Objectives and Methods : This master aims at studying the local seismicity characterising Lake Kimneret. The progression of the study will be the following: 1) Literature analysis 2) Deployment of seismic network 3) Data treatment, including earthquake detection, construction of velocity models, earthquake relocalization, tectonic reconstruction of major fault systems based on microseismic activity 4) Comparison between active and passive seismic data References Hurwitz, S., Garfunkel, Z., Ben-Gai, Y., Reznikov, M., Rotstein, Y., Gvirtzman, H., 2002. The tectonic framework of a complex pull-apart basin: seismic reflection observations in the Sea of Galilee, Dead Sea transform. Tectonophysics 359, 289–306. doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00516-4 From Hurwitz et al., (2002) Choice of orientation : RGEOL, SERG

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14.03.17

Master of Sciences in geology

Seismic activity in Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), Israel Contact person: Prof. Matteo Lupi, University of Geneva [email protected]; Context Lake Kinneret, otherwise known as the Sea of Galilee, Israel, sits upon the Dead Sea fault spanning some 1000 km from the Red Sea in the south to the Taurus Mountains in Turkey in the north (Hurwitz et al., 2002). Historical records, i.e. the Bible, describe the occurrence of large-magnitude seismic events affecting Galilee with magnitude estimated as high as Ml7.7. In the framework of an international collaboration between the University of Haifa, Israel, the Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics of Oslo, Norway, and the CNR of Bologna, Italy, this project will investigate the seismic activity around the Sea of Galilee. The goal of the collaborative scientific effort is to acquire geophysical and geochemical data to monitor the seismic activity in the basin. The MSc candidate will travel to Israel to deploy the seismic network and describe the on-going seismic activity of the area with a high-resolution network to delineate major fault systems. Seismic data will be compared to geochemical studies to point out major geochemical variations after major seismic events. Objectives and Methods : This master aims at studying the local seismicity characterising Lake Kimneret. The progression of the study will be the following:

1) Literature analysis 2) Deployment of seismic network 3) Data treatment, including earthquake detection, construction of velocity models, earthquake relocalization, tectonic

reconstruction of major fault systems based on microseismic activity 4) Comparison between active and passive seismic data

References Hurwitz, S., Garfunkel, Z., Ben-Gai, Y., Reznikov, M., Rotstein, Y., Gvirtzman, H., 2002. The tectonic framework of a

complex pull-apart basin: seismic reflection observations in the Sea of Galilee, Dead Sea transform. Tectonophysics 359, 289–306. doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00516-4

From Hurwitz et al., (2002)

Choice of orientation : RGEOL, SERG