Relocation Processing of Selected Earthquakes in the Gulf of Aqaba Region

The tectonic setting of the Gulf of Aqaba is closely related to the Dead Sea Transform fault region (Al-Zhoubi et al. 2006). The evolution of the Gulf started with the initiation of the Red Sea rift in Late Oligocene to Early Miocene, the displacement motion along the main fault has been continuous since that time, with increase in the component of transverse separation along the DST since 5 million years (Joffe and Garfunkel, 1987). The age of the Aqaba Gulf is a late Miocene-Pliocene age (Hosney, 1985). The Gulf of Aqaba faulting structure is dominated by vertical to sub-vertical faults with principal directions of NNE-SSW, NE-SW, E-W and NW-SE (Rashdan, 1988).