The Arab School for Science and Technology (ASST) and the National Earthquake Center (NEC - Syria) are pleased to invite you to participate to the workshop on "Active Tectonic Studies and Earthquake Hazard Assessment in Syria and Neighboring Countries", to be held from 17 to 19 November 2009 at ASST, Damascus, Syria.
 

The Dead Sea Fault System (DSFS) ranks among the largest strike-slip fault systems in the world and represents a key element of the eastern Mediterranean seismotectonic framework. The fault system accommodates ~5 mm/year of left lateral motion between the Arabian and African (Sinai) plates along much of its length. Intracontinental deformation (Palmyrides, Abdel-Aziz and Sinjar structures), caused by plate boundary processes extending into the plate interior, dominates the past and present tectonics of Syria and surrounding areas.

Recent debates concerning the slip rate and kinematics of the DSFS attest to the limited understanding of it as an active and seismogenic system. In particular, there has been debate about whether the active plate boundary is mainly represented by the northern DSFS or whether active deformation is partially concentrated offshore to the west.

The workshop aims to bring together earth scientists working on aspects of seismology, active tectonics, space geodesy, remote sensing, paleoseismology and geodynamics, to address issues concerning the tectonic evolution of the eastern Mediterranean and northern Arabian plate, with results relevant to tectonic and seismotectonic modeling, lithospheric structure, earthquake hazard evaluation, and exchanging related ideas and techniques.

The Workshop is the second in the ASST's Earth Science series and will include contributions from a core group of internationally recognized geoscientists (Main Speakers) working with the Syrian National Earthquake Center (NEC) and coming from prestigious Universities and research centers in USA, France, United Kingdom, Italy and Turkey.
 

• Active tectonics
• Seismotectonics
• Crust and upper mantle structure
• Earthquake Source parameters and seismic wave attenuation
• GPS and remote sensing observations
• Earthquake hazard evaluation
• Earthquake engineering
• Earthquake risk assessment
 

Prof. Muawia BARAZANGI
Professor & Associate Director
Institute for the Study of the Continents (INSTOC)
Cornell University, Snee Hall
Ithaca, New York 14853
U.S.A
E-mail: mb44@cornell.edu
 

Dr. Mohamad DAOUD (Chairman)
Mr. Alexandre SURSOCK
Dr. Abdullah AL-ENIZI
Dr. Mazhar BAYERLY
Dr. Hafez AL SADECK
Dr. Samer BAGH
Mr. Mohamed Reda SBEINATI