Upper Rhine

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The Upper Rhine (German: Oberrhein) is the part of the Rhine that flows northbound after Basel, along the Rhine rift, and then westward to Bingen. The section is marked by Rhine-kilometers 170 to 529 (the scale begins in Konstanz and ends in Rotterdam).

The "Upper Rhine" is only one of four sections (High Rhine, Upper Rhine, Middle Rhine, Lower Rhine) of the German part of the Rhine, but the French divide the same section in "Upper Rhine" and "Lower Rhine", as in the names of the French départements in the Alsace region, "Haut-Rhin" and "Bas-Rhin".

The epicenter of the Basel earthquake of 1356, which is the most significant historic seismological event to have occurred in Central Europe, was located in the Upper Rhine valley (Rhine rift) between Waldkirch and St.Peter in Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald.

A collaboration of 25 universities and government agencies have been researching seismic hazards, neotectonics, and water management of the Quaternary Graben fill. The research focuses on four themes [1]:

  • "Neotectonics and Seismic Hazard (Identification of zones of on-going deformation. Present stress regime. Earthquake location & frequency. Hazard assessment.)"
  • "Modeling of Hydro systems (Modeling of Plio-Quaternary hydro systems of the Upper Rhine Graben and of transfer time of pollutants within them)"
  • "Structure and Evolution (Reassessment of structural evolution of the Upper Rhine Graben and implications for its neotectonic deformation; Fault reactivation, crustal rheology and earthquake activity)"
  • "Dynamic Modeling (Multi scale dynamic modeling of the past and present deformation of the Rhine Graben area)"


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