Dr. Dor has been engaged in the past 17 years in research, field work and consulting in various geological disciplines including engineering geology, seismic hazard analysis, soil stability, environmental geology, sedimentology, exploration and seismic data acquisition and interpretation, both onshore and offshore. Dr. Dor's core activities are on the interface between geotechnical conditions, geological hazards, urban planning and engineering design of major infrastructures.
In the past few years Dr. Dor's research was focused on seismotectonics and active faulting, with the aim of updating and upgrading the Israeli national seismic hazard approach and database. As part of these efforts, Dr. Dor collaborates with governmental agencies on the development of regulatory guidelines for the mitigation of seismic and other geological hazards.
Avital, M., Kamai, R., Davis, M., & Dor, O. (2018). The Effect of Alternative Seismotectonic Models on PSHA Results – a Sensitivity Study for the Case of Israel. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18, 499-514. doi: 10.5194/nhess-18-499-2018. SCEC Contribution 7904
Dor, O., Chester, J. S., Ben-Zion, Y., Brune, J. N., & Rockwell, T. K. (2009). Characterization of damage in sandstones along the Mojave section of the San Andreas Fault: implications for the shallow extent of damage generation. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 166(10-11), 1747-1773. doi: 10.1007/s00024-009-0516-z. SCEC Contribution 1404
Dor, O., Yildirim, C., Rockwell, T. K., Ben-Zion, Y., Emre, O., Sisk, M. A., & Duman, T. (2008). Geological and geomorphologic asymmetry across the rupture zones of the 1943 and 1944 earthquakes on the North Anatolian Fault: possible signals for preferred earthquake propagation direction. Geophysical Journal International, 173(2), 483-504. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03709.x. SCEC Contribution 1369
Dor, O., Rockwell, T. K., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2006). Geological Observations of Damage Asymmetry in the Structure of the San Jacinto, San Andreas and Punchbowl Faults in Southern California: A Possible Indicator for Preferred Rupture Propagation Direction. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 163(2-3), 301-349. doi: 10.1007/s00024-005-0023-9. SCEC Contribution 909
