Dead Sea Transform fault

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The Dead Sea Transform fault is a major strike-slip plate boundary between the African and Arabian plates that has created the long, linear rift system running from the Red Sea through the Dead Sea region into the Levant.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf plate boundary
strike-slip fault
transform fault
age Cenozoic
alsoKnownAs Dead Sea Fault System
Dead Sea Transform
associatedFeature Dead Sea Rift
Dead Sea pull-apart basin
Gulf of Aqaba pull-apart basins
Jordan Rift Valley
country Egypt
Israel
Jordan
Lebanon
Palestine
Saudi Arabia
Syria
deformationStyle strike-slip with localized extension and compression
earthquakeHazard significant for Levant region
extendsFrom northern Red Sea
extendsTo southern Turkey region
forms long, linear rift system
governingProcess continental transform tectonics
initiated Miocene
linkedTo East Anatolian Fault
Red Sea Rift
motionType left-lateral strike-slip
notableEarthquake 1202 Syria earthquake
1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake
749 Galilee earthquake
orientation north-south to north-northeast–south-southwest
passesThrough Dead Sea region
linked to: Arabah Valley

Gulf of Aqaba
Jordan Valley
Levant
linked to: Levant region

Red Sea region
linked to: Red Sea coast
plate1 African Plate
plate2 Arabian Plate
region Middle East
relativePlateMotionRate about 4 to 5 millimeters per year
researchField seismology
tectonics
segment Dead Sea segment
Ghab fault segment in Syria
Gulf of Aqaba segment
linked to: Gulf of Aqaba

Jordan Valley segment
Yammouneh fault segment in Lebanon
seismicity high
separates Sinai subplate from Arabian Plate
tectonicSetting boundary between African Plate and Arabian Plate

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Jordan Rift Valley formedBy Dead Sea Transform fault
Arabian Plate hasBoundaryFeature Dead Sea Transform
linked to: Dead Sea Transform fault
Arabian Plate associatedWith Dead Sea Transform earthquake zone
linked to: Dead Sea Transform fault
Moab Mountains geologicalSetting Dead Sea Transform fault system
linked to: Dead Sea Transform fault
Great Rift Valley system contains Dead Sea Transform
linked to: Dead Sea Transform fault
Afro-Arabian Rift System includesFeature Dead Sea Transform
linked to: Dead Sea Transform fault
Afro-Arabian Rift System associatedWith Dead Sea Fault System
linked to: Dead Sea Transform fault
Dead Sea Transform fault alsoKnownAs Dead Sea Transform
linked to: Dead Sea Transform fault
Dead Sea Transform fault alsoKnownAs Dead Sea Fault System
linked to: Dead Sea Transform fault
Dead Sea Transform fault segment Dead Sea segment
linked to: Dead Sea Transform fault
Dead Sea Transform fault segment Yammouneh fault segment in Lebanon
linked to: Dead Sea Transform fault
Sinai subplate boundedBy Levant Fault system
linked to: Dead Sea Transform fault
Sinai subplate boundedBy Dead Sea Transform
linked to: Dead Sea Transform fault
Sinai subplate hasKeyStructure Dead Sea Transform fault zone
linked to: Dead Sea Transform fault
Levantine Basin near Levant Fault System
linked to: Dead Sea Transform fault