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Dead Sea Transform
Strike-Slip Fault (Left-Lateral) · Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Turkey
The Dead Sea Transform is a strike-slip fault, where the two blocks slide horizontally past each other, left-lateral (the opposite block moves to the left). Its mapped traces are about 1,280 km long in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Turkey. It marks the boundary between the Arabian Plate and the African Plate. Its slip rate is estimated between 0.4 and 5 mm per year depending on the section. Since 1900, 2 major earthquakes have occurred within 30 km of its trace.
- Type
- Strike-Slip Fault
- Sense of Slip
- Left-Lateral
- Mapped Length
- ≈ 1,280 km
- Slip Rate
- 0.4 – 5 mm per year
- Countries
- Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Turkey
- Plates
- Arabian Plate, African Plate
Major Earthquakes Within 30 km
Deadly or magnitude 7+ earthquakes recorded by NOAA, most recent first.
- 19951995 Gulf of Aqaba Earthquake · M 7.211 deaths
- 19271927 Earthquake in Palestine · M 6.3268 deaths
Sources: GEM Global Active Faults (Styron et Pagani, 2020), CC BY-SA 4.0, catalogue EMME · NOAA NCEI · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Wikidata