15. JUST A DROP - The Levant Fault System

B for Bacchus

JUST A DROP: Less than 10 minutes about a wine topic, some news, and updates.

The Levant Fault System, or the Dead Sea Transform, is a network of fault lines that lie under and through Lebanon. The 3 main ones have caused catastrophic earthquakes in the past but they also gave Lebanon rich topography and soils great for grape-growing. Farrah talks about it all in under 8 minutes so make sure to listen to last week's episode to know the background on Lebanon's seismology studies.

Sources:

• "The historical earthquakes of Syria: an analysis of large and moderate earthquakes from 1365 B.C. to 1900 A.D.," Sbeinati, Darawcheh, and Mouty
• "Short notice on earthquake hazard in Lebanon," Ata Elias (many of his publications were helpful in this research)
• "Active thrusting offshore Mount Lebanon: Source of the tsunamigenic A.D. 551 Beirut-Tripoli earthquake," multiple authors
• The Geology of Lebanon, C.D. Walley
• Lebanon's National Center for Geophysics