Paleotsunami deposits along the coast of Egypt correlate with historical earthquake records of eastern Mediterranean

Salama, Asem; Meghraoui, Mustapha; El Gabry, Mohamed; Maouche, Said; Hussein, Moussa Hesham; Korrat, Ibrahim

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2203-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2203-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2203-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 8

Research article

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17 Aug 2018

Research article |

| 17 Aug 2018

Paleotsunami deposits along the coast of Egypt correlate with historical earthquake records of eastern Mediterranean

Asem Salama, Mustapha Meghraoui, Mohamed El Gabry, Said Maouche, Moussa Hesham Hussein, and Ibrahim Korrat

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RC1: 'Comments on NHESS 2018-62', Raphaël Paris, 23 Mar 2018
- AC1: 'nhess-2018-62 Reply to RC1', Mustapha Meghraoui, 12 Jun 2018
RC2: 'Comments to "Paleotsunami deposits along the coast of Egypt correlate with 6 historical earthquake records of eastern Mediterranean" by Salama et al.', Pedro Costa, 26 Mar 2018
- AC2: 'nhess-2018-62 Reply to RC2', Mustapha Meghraoui, 12 Jun 2018
RC3: 'Review', Cristino Jose Dabrio Gonzalez, 29 Mar 2018
- AC3: 'nhess-2018-62 Reply to RC3', Mustapha Meghraoui, 12 Jun 2018
AC4: 'Cover letter to the Editor (attached)', Mustapha Meghraoui, 18 Jun 2018

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (25 Jun 2018) by Maria Ana Baptista

AR by Mustapha Meghraoui on behalf of the Authors (05 Jul 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (14 Jul 2018) by Maria Ana Baptista

AR by Mustapha Meghraoui on behalf of the Authors (20 Jul 2018)

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We study the sedimentary record of past tsunamis along the coastal area west of Alexandria (northwestern Egypt), taking into account the occurrence of major historical earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean. Dated charcoal and shell in sedimentary units allow the correlation with the 1870 (Mw 7.5), 1303 (Mw ~8) and 365 (Mw ~8) large tsunamigenic earthquakes. Our results point out the size and recurrence of past tsunamis and related hazards on the Egyptian coastline and eastern Mediterranean.