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Amotz Agnon

Hebrew University of Jerusalem · IL
Area of research
Geophysics · Atmospheric Science
Research interest
Research interests include Geology, Seismology, Dead sea, Glacial period, Induced seismicity, and Fault (geology).
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citations
1,068
works
38
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Recent publications

Earthquake Swarms and Seismic Gaps Along the Dead Sea Fault System
Seismological Research Letters 2025cited by 3position: lastdoi
Dead Sea Stromatolite Reefs: Testing Ground for Remote Sensing Automated Detection of Life Forms and Their Traces in Harsh Environments
Remote Sensing 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
Geomagnetic Field Intensity During the First Millennium BCE From Royal Judean Storage Jars: Constraining the Duration of the Levantine Iron Age Anomaly
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 2024cited by 8position: middledoi
Combined Genomic and Imaging Techniques Show Intense Arsenic Enrichment Caused by Detoxification in a Microbial Mat of the Dead Sea Shore
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 2024cited by 5position: middledoi
Unveiling the Transition From Paleolake Lisan to Dead Sea Through the Analysis of Lake Paleoshorelines and Radiometric Dating of Fossil Stromatolites
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 2024cited by 4position: middledoi
Drone-Borne LiDAR and Photogrammetry Together with Historical Data for Studying a Paleo-Landslide Reactivated by Road-Cutting and Barrier Construction outside Jerusalem
Geotechnics 2024cited by 1position: lastdoi
Seismicity Induced at the Northern Dead Sea Transform Fault, Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) Basin, by Shallow Creep Involving a Salt Body
Tectonics 2022cited by 10position: lastdoi
Stratigraphic record reveals contrasting roles of overflows and underflows over glacial cycles in a hypersaline lake (Dead Sea)
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2022cited by 8position: middledoi
GPR Mapping of buried monumental retaining walls at biblical Kiriath-Yearim near Jerusalem
STAR Science & Technology of Archaeological Research 2022cited by 2position: middledoi
Orbital‐ and Millennial‐Scale Changes in Lake‐Levels Facilitate Earthquake‐Triggered Mass Failures in the Dead Sea Basin
Geophysical Research Letters 2021cited by 19position: middledoi
A 220,000-year-long continuous large earthquake record on a slow-slipping plate boundary
Science Advances 2020cited by 60position: middledoi
A New Approach to Constrain the Seismic Origin for Prehistoric Turbidites as Applied to the Dead Sea Basin
Geophysical Research Letters 2020cited by 25position: middledoi
Sharp changes in lake-levels preconditioning seismogenic mass failures in the Dead Sea
2020cited by 1position: middledoi
Earthquake supercycles and Long-Term Fault Memory
Tectonophysics 2019cited by 99position: middledoi
Paleoclimatology of the Levant from Zalmon Cave speleothems, the northern Jordan Valley, Israel
Quaternary Science Reviews 2019cited by 24position: middledoi
Internal deformation and uplift-rate of salt walls detected by a displaced dissolution surface, Dead Sea basin
Journal of Structural Geology 2019cited by 13position: middledoi
Calibrating a new attenuation curve for the Dead Sea region using surface wave dispersion surveys in sites damaged by the 1927 Jericho earthquake
Solid Earth 2019cited by 11position: lastdoi
The First Catalog of Archaeomagnetic Directions From Israel With 4,000 Years of Geomagnetic Secular Variations
Frontiers in Earth Science 2018cited by 28position: lastdoi
Fire and collapse: Untangling the formation of destruction layers using archaeomagnetism
Geoarchaeology 2018cited by 23position: lastdoi
Last interglacial sea levels and regional tectonics from fossil coral reefs in the northeast Gulf of Aqaba
Quaternary Science Reviews 2018cited by 18position: middledoi
Effect of large-scale surface water level fluctuations on earthquake recurrence interval under strike-slip faulting
Tectonophysics 2018cited by 11position: lastdoi
Calibrating a New Attenuation Curve for the Dead Sea Region UsingSurface Wave Dispersion Surveys in Sites Damaged by the 1927Jericho Earthquake
2018cited by 4position: lastdoi
An improved evaluation of the seismic/geodetic deformation-rate ratio for the Zagros Fold-and-Thrust collisional belt
Geophysical Journal International 2017cited by 44position: middledoi
Large geomagnetic field anomalies revealed in Bronze to Iron Age archeomagnetic data from Tel Megiddo and Tel Hazor, Israel
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2016cited by 102position: lastdoi
New perspectives on interdisciplinary earth science at the Dead Sea: The DESERVE project
The Science of The Total Environment 2016cited by 50position: middledoi
Hydroclimatic variability in the Levant during the early last glacial (∼  117–75 ka) derived from micro-facies analyses of deep Dead Sea sediments
Climate of the past 2016cited by 48position: middledoi
Offshore Evidence for an Undocumented Tsunami Event in the ‘Low Risk’ Gulf of Aqaba-Eilat, Northern Red Sea
PLoS ONE 2016cited by 34position: lastdoi
U–Th dating of calcite corals from the Gulf of Aqaba
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2016cited by 27position: middledoi
Holocene hydrological events and human induced environmental changes reflected in a southeastern Mediterranean fluvial archive
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 2016cited by 13position: middledoi
Data‐Driven Seismic‐Hazard Models Prepared for a Seismic Risk Assessment in the Dead Sea Region
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2016cited by 8position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

· 10 papers (2014–2022) · 8 papers (2014–2022)Yin Lu · University of Tübingen5 papers (2020–2022)Yaniv Darvasi · Hebrew University of Jerusalem5 papers (2018–2024) · 4 papers (2020–2022)Nadav Wetzler · University of California, Santa Cruz4 papers (2020–2025) · 4 papers (2020–2022) · 4 papers (2020–2022)Ron Shaar · Hebrew University of Jerusalem4 papers (2016–2024)Yael Ebert · Hebrew University of Jerusalem3 papers (2016–2018)Aurélia Hubert‐Ferrari · Columbia University3 papers (2020–2021)Yehouda Enzel · Hebrew University of Jerusalem3 papers (2014–2016)Erez Hassul · Hebrew University of Jerusalem3 papers (2018–2024) · 3 papers (2014–2016)Mordechai Stein · Hebrew University of Jerusalem3 papers (2014–2018)G.I. Alsop · University of Aberdeen3 papers (2020–2021) · 3 papers (2014–2016) · 3 papers (2014–2016) · 3 papers (2014–2016) · 2 papers (2015–2016)