DST earthquakes, damage & environmental effects database The SQL Server database is designed to store, manage, and analyze comprehensive information about historical earthquakes, their associated damage, and environmental effects. Its structure is optimized for efficient querying, scalability, and integration with advanced analytical tools. The database uses a relational schema to organize data...

A new look at urban and human activity in Late Ottoman Palestine: Virtualization of Jerusalem and Haifa using Historical GIS (HGIS) and Machine Learning Between the 19th and early 20th centuries, significant developments affected Ottoman Palestine. The Napoleon campaign (1799), the Egyptian occupation of Palestine (1831), the Tanzimat reforms, the end of the Crimean war (1856), the opening of the Suez...

Using Twitter for near real-time alerts and damage analysis of natural hazards in Israel and its close surrounding During the last decade, the social network of Twitter has become a robust platform for distributing messages (tweets) among numerous subscribers worldwide. To date, Twitter is used by more than 500 million users worldwide. In Israel the growth of twitter subscribers is by ~100,000 per...

Spatial and temporal damage cycles analysis of historical earthquakes during the last 3,500 years along the Dead Sea Transform Earthquakes were always meaningful to mankind as one of the most destructive natural hazards. The seismotectonic unit associated with much of the destructive earthquakes in the Levant is the Dead Sea Transform (DST) system. Thus, there is an ongoing effort to investigate the...