⋯ What is Lebanon's situation?
Brax told L'Orient-Today on 6 Feb that the Turkish earthquake “originated in the northernmost part of the Levant fault line”. It was the strongest quake along this line “since 1202”. The Arabian plate has moved three meters obliquely to the Anatolian plate, per other reports.
In Lebanon, the Levant Fault is called Yammouneh Fault; the coast is over the Sinai sub-plate (moving south), the Beqaa Valley is over the Arabian plate (moving north). Pressional deformation has formed the Mount Lebanon Thrust.
On 9 July 551, there was a quake in Beirut with a magnitude of about 7.5—it triggered a tsunami. The estimated return time for big earthquakes on the Mount Lebanon thrust is 1500 to 1750 years. (Wikipedia)
Brax told L'Orient-Today on 6 Feb that the Turkish earthquake “originated in the northernmost part of the Levant fault line”. It was the strongest quake along this line “since 1202”. The Arabian plate has moved three meters obliquely to the Anatolian plate, per other reports.
In Lebanon, the Levant Fault is called Yammouneh Fault; the coast is over the Sinai sub-plate (moving south), the Beqaa Valley is over the Arabian plate (moving north). Pressional deformation has formed the Mount Lebanon Thrust.
On 9 July 551, there was a quake in Beirut with a magnitude of about 7.5—it triggered a tsunami. The estimated return time for big earthquakes on the Mount Lebanon thrust is 1500 to 1750 years. (Wikipedia)