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Overview

Amotz Agnon is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on geophysics and related subfields. Their work spans various disciplines including geological processes, atmospheric science, and ocean engineering.

Their research interests predominantly cover earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, as well as geological formations and processes. Additional focus areas include geophysical methods and applications, landslides and related hazards, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, and seismic waves and analysis.

Recent publications by Amotz Agnon include the following:

  • A 220,000-year-long continuous large earthquake record on a slow-slipping plate boundary (2020), published in Science Advances
  • A New Approach to Constrain the Seismic Origin for Prehistoric Turbidites as Applied to the Dead Sea Basin (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Orbital- and Millennial-Scale Changes in Lake-Levels Facilitate Earthquake-Triggered Mass Failures in the Dead Sea Basin (2021), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Earthquake preparedness among religious minority groups: the case of the Jewish ultra-Orthodox society in Israel (2021), published in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • Seismicity Induced at the Northern Dead Sea Transform Fault, Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) Basin, by Shallow Creep Involving a Salt Body (2022), published in Tectonics

Frequent publication venues for Amotz Agnon include:

  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • Seismological Research Letters

The scientist has collaborated regularly with the following coauthors:

  • Yaniv Darvasi
  • Yin Lu
  • Nadav Wetzler
  • Nicolás Waldmann
  • Shmuel Marco

In addition to articles, Amotz Agnon has contributed to book publications, including a 2023 title entitled Science of Lakes - Multidisciplinary Approach within the Environmental Sciences domain.

Best Publications

  • Holocene climate variability and cultural evolution in the Near East from the Dead Sea sedimentary record

    Claudia Migowski;Mordechai Stein;Sushma Prasad;Jörg F.W. Negendank

  • Lake Levels and Sequence Stratigraphy of Lake Lisan, the Late Pleistocene Precursor of the Dead Sea

    Yuval Bartov;Mordechai Stein;Yehouda Enzel;Amotz Agnon

  • Long-term earthquake clustering: A 50,000-year paleoseismic record in the Dead Sea Graben

    Shmuel Marco;Mordechai Stein;Amotz Agnon;Hagai Ron

  • Distributed damage, faulting, and friction

    Vladimir Lyakhovsky;Yehuda Ben-Zion;Amotz Agnon

  • Late Holocene lake levels of the Dead Sea

    R. Bookman;Y. Enzel;A. Agnon;M. Stein

  • Recurrence pattern of Holocene earthquakes along the Dead Sea transform revealed by varve-counting and radiocarbon dating of lacustrine sediments

    Claudia Migowski;Amotz Agnon;Revital Bookman;Jörg F.W Negendank

  • Prehistoric earthquake deformations near Masada, Dead Sea graben

    Shmuel Marco;Amotz Agnon

  • High-resolution geological record of historic earthquakes in the Dead Sea basin

    Revital Ken-Tor;Amotz Agnon;Yehouda Enzel;Mordechai Stein

  • OSCILLONS AND PROPAGATING SOLITARY WAVES IN A VERTICALLY VIBRATED COLLOIDAL SUSPENSION

    O. Lioubashevski;Y. Hamiel;A. Agnon;Z. Reches

  • Earthquake cycle, fault zones, and seismicity patterns in a rheologically layered lithosphere

    Vladimir Lyakhovsky;Yehuda Ben-Zion;Amotz Agnon

  • The late Quaternary limnological history of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), Israel

    N. Hazan;M. Stein;A. Agnon;S. Marco

  • Crusader castle torn apart by earthquake at dawn, 20 May 1202

    Ronnie Ellenblum;Shmuel Marco;Amotz Agnon;Thomas Rockwell

  • Slip rate and locking depth from GPS profiles across the southern Dead Sea Transform

    Maryline Le Beon;Yann Klinger;Abdel Qader Amrat;Amotz Agnon

  • Self-driven mode switching of earthquake activity on a fault system

    Yehuda Ben-Zion;Karin A Dahmen;Vladimir Lyakhovsky;Deniz Ertas

  • Geomagnetic field intensity: How high can it get? How fast can it change? Constraints from Iron Age copper slag

    Ron Shaar;Erez Ben-Yosef;Hagai Ron;Lisa Tauxe

  • Late Holocene activity of the Dead Sea Transform revealed in 3D palaeoseismic trenches on the Jordan Gorge segment

    Shmuel Marco;Thomas K. Rockwell;Ariel Heimann;Uri Frieslander

  • The crustal structure of the Dead Sea Transform

    M. Weber;K. Abu-Ayyash;A. Abueladas

  • Intraclast breccias in laminated sequences reviewed: Recorders of paleo-earthquakes

    Amotz Agnon;Claudia Migowski;Shmuel Marco

  • Dating large infrequent earthquakes by damaged cave deposits

    Elisa J. Kagan;Amotz Agnon;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon

  • Lithology of the long sediment record recovered by the ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP)

    Ina Neugebauer;Achim Brauer;Markus J. Schwab;Nicolas D. Waldmann

  • New Frontiers in Dead Sea Paleoenvironmental Research

    Yehouda Enzel;Amotz Agnon;Mordechai Stein

Frequent Co-Authors

Mordechai Stein
Mordechai Stein Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shmuel Marco
Shmuel Marco Tel Aviv University
Hagai Ron
Hagai Ron Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Boaz Lazar
Boaz Lazar Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Vladimir Lyakhovsky
Vladimir Lyakhovsky Geological Survey of Israel
Zvi Ben-Avraham
Zvi Ben-Avraham Tel Aviv University
Frank Scherbaum
Frank Scherbaum University of Potsdam
Trond Ryberg
Trond Ryberg University of Potsdam
Zvi Garfunkel
Zvi Garfunkel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lisa Tauxe
Lisa Tauxe University of California, San Diego

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