... of the 2003 Boumerdes‐Zemmouri earthquake, Algeria, from teleseismic, GPS, and coastal uplift data , Geophys. Res. Lett. 31 , L18607 , doi: 10.1029/2004GL020687 . Déverchère J. Yelles K. Domzig A. Mercier de Lépinay B. Bouillin J. P. Gaullier V. Bracène R. Calais E...

... 11 10 2006 © 2007 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute 2007 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Macroseismic Study of the Zemmouri Earthquake of 21 May 2003 (Mw 6.8, Algeria) A. Harbi,a),b) S. Maouche,a) F. Ousadou,a) Y. Rouchiche,a) A. Yelles-Chaouche,a) M. Merahi,a) A. Heddar...

... ). Zemmouri earthquake rupture zone (Mw 6.8, Algeria): Aftershocks sequence relocation and 3D velocity model . Geophysical Research Letters 113 , B09301 ; doi:10.1029/2007JB005257. Benkaci , N. ( 2007 ). Quantification des effets de site suite au séisme de Boumerdès à partir des...

...-central part of Algeria. The epicenter was located offshore at 3.58°E 36.91°N 7 km to the north of Zemmouri in the province of Boumerdes, about 50 km northeast of Algiers ( Yelles-Chauche et al., 2003 ). This earthquake took place where we have no evidence of previous significant earthquakes, either...

... hence generate a large earthquake following the 2003 Zemmouri event. Figure 1. Seismotectonic map of the Tell Atlas in the north‐central Algeria where black lines indicate late Quaternary and active faults ( Meghraoui, 1988 ) and seismicity comes from the earthquake catalog of Ayadi...

... here onward as the 2003 western Mediterranean tsunami) struck the islands’ shores and coastal infrastructures after an earthquake in offshore Algeria, known as the Boumerdès-Zemmouri earthquake. The earthquake occurred as a consequence of the subduction of the Eurasian plate under the African plate...

.... , 2011 ) and Zemmouri (2003; Harbi, Maouche, Ousadou, et al. , 2007 ; Ayadi et al. , 2008 ), which were responsible for significant damage. The seismicity of the northern region of Algeria is dominated by thrust focal mechanisms to the west and centrally and by strike‐slip faults to the east (e.g...

.... , Frogneux M. , Slimani A. , Kharroubi A. , Ousadou F. , Chikh M. , Harbi A. , Larbes S. , and Maouche S. , 2004 . The 21 May 2003 Zemmouri (Algeria...

... S. , and Maouche S. , 2004 . The 21 May 2003 Zemmouri (Algeria) earthquake M w 6.8: relocation and aftershock sequence analysis , Geophysical Research Letters 31 , L19606 , DOI:. Bour M. , Fouissac D. , Dominique...

... ) - Evolution morphotectonique de la structure du Sahel . Congrès GEOMAG1 , Tlemcen, Algérie . 69 . Ayadi A. , Dorbat , C. , Ousadou F. , Maouche S. , Chikh M. , Bounif MA. & Meghraoui M. ( 2008 ) - Zemmouri earthquake rupture zone (Mw 6.8, Algeria): aftershocks...

...  6.8 Zemmouri Earthquake, described by Bounif et al. (2004) , Hellel et al. (2010) looked at the presence of site effects and their correlation with damage in the city of Boumerdes, Algeria. They described an abrupt increase in the fundamental soil frequency in going from the western part...

... plates has occurred since late Cretaceous (Auzende et al. 1975 ; Mauffret 2007 ). Most of the earthquakes epicenters that have generated historical tsunamis in the western Mediterranean were located in this area. The most recent example is the Zemmouri, Algeria, earthquake ( M w = 6.8 ; fig...

... ( 1987 ). Global seismicity of 1977: Centroid-moment tensor solutions for 471 earthquakes . Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 45 , 11 – 36 . Edwards , C. L. , ed. ( 2004 ). Zemmouri, Algeria, M W 6.8 Earthquake of May 21, 2003 . American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Report...

... Number 1633 (in Arabic). Alasset P. J. Hébert H. Maouche S. Calbini V. , and Meghraoui M. 2006 . The tsunami induced by the 2003 Zemmouri earthquake ( M w = 6.9 , Algeria): Modelling and results , Geophys. J. Int. 166 , no.  1 , 213 – 226 , doi: 10.1111/j.1365...

... A. Merahi M. Heddar A. Nouar O. Kherroubi A. Beldjoudi H. , et al. ( 2007 ). Macroseismic study of the Zemmouri earthquake of 21 May 2003 ( M w  6.8, Algeria) , Earthq. spectra 23 , no.  2 , 315–332 . Harbi A. Maouche S. Vaccari F. Aoudia A. Oussadou F...

... event based on engravings in Algeria; (2) present an intensity map that includes 45 observation points instead of the 38 previous ones of Ambraseys and Vogt (1988) ; (3) describe macroseismic studies of the earthquakes that occurred on the southern border of the MB using the available historical...

...—Beni Ourtilane; Bu—Boumerdes; Ms—Mascara; ARFS—Alboran Ridge Fault System. To address these issues, we present the first interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)-based regional-scale interseismic velocity maps for northern Africa, from western Algeria to Tunisia. Using an ~7-year-long...

... , 04021026 , doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000478 . Belabbès , S. , Wicks , C. , Çakir , Z. , Meghraoui , M. , 2009 . Rupture parameters of the 2003 Zemmouri (Mw 6.8), Algeria, earthquake from joint inversion of interferometric synthetic aperture radar, coastal uplift, and GPS...

... to comment by J. Deverchere et al . on “ Zemmouri earthquake rupture zone (Mw 6.8, Algeria): Aftershocks sequence relocation and 3D velocity model ”. – J. Geophys. Res. , 115 , B04319 , doi: 10.1029/2009JB006705. Bache F. , Olivet J.-L. , Gorini C. , Aslanian D...

... both before and after a severe earthquake disaster. The rst case was the 21 May 2003 Boumerdes, Algeria earthquake, and, in that case, the images of Boumerdes City were taken about one year before, two days after and 28 days after the event, and those of Zemmouri City were obtained eight days before...