Classifying marine faults for hazard assessment offshore Israel:  a new approach based on fault size and vertical displacement

Laor, May; Gvirtzman, Zohar

doi:10.5194/nhess-23-139-2023

Articles | Volume 23, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-139-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-139-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 1

Research article

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17 Jan 2023

Research article |

| 17 Jan 2023

Classifying marine faults for hazard assessment offshore Israel: a new approach based on fault size and vertical displacement

May Laor and Zohar Gvirtzman

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Short summary

This study aims to provide a practical and relatively fast solution for early-stage planning of marine infrastructure that must cross a faulted zone. Instead of investing huge efforts in finding whether each specific fault meets a pre-defined criterion of activeness, we map the subsurface and determine the levels of fault hazard based on the amount of displacement and the fault's plane size. This allows for choosing the least problematic infrastructure routes at an early planning stage.