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    The Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system, also sometimes referred to as the Dead Sea Rift, is a series of faults that run for about 1,000 km from the...
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    streams. The Dead Sea lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, a geographic feature formed by the Dead Sea Transform (DST). This left lateral-moving transform fault lies...
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  • its associated features can induce magmatism. Examples include the Dead Sea Transform in the Middle East and the San Andreas Fault in California. Magmatism...
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    region to be 600 ± 200 years. Other examples include: Middle East's Dead Sea Transform Fault Pakistan's Chaman Fault Turkey's North Anatolian Fault North...
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    been associated with the 1,100 km (680 mi) long Dead Sea Transform Fault System, a left-lateral transform boundary. Since the early Miocene, the fault system...
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    2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes (category All articles with dead external links)
    the result of shallow strike-slip faulting along segments of the Dead Sea Transform, East Anatolian and Sürgü–Çardak faults. There was widespread damage...
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    Jordan Rift Valley (category Dead Sea)
    that extends through the valley is variously called the Dead Sea Transform (DST) or Dead Sea Rift. The boundary separates the Arabian plate from the African...
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    sequence of large earthquakes that propagated southwards along the Dead Sea Transform, starting with the 1138 Aleppo earthquake, continuing with the 1157...
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    plates, both drifting north and demarcated by the north–south trending Dead Sea Transform (itself an extension of the African Rift Valleys), come up against...
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    tip of Sinai in the Red Sea, the Dead Sea Transform meets the Red Sea Rift which runs the length of the Red Sea. The Red Sea Rift comes ashore to meet...
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    The Red Sea Rift is a mid-ocean ridge between two tectonic plates, the African plate and the Arabian plate. It extends from the Dead Sea Transform fault...
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  • Aleppo is located close to the zone of faulting associated with the Dead Sea Transform, where the Arabian plate is moving northwards relative to the African...
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  • 1202, occurring on two different (but contiguous) segments of the Dead Sea Transform. The distribution of reported damage strongly suggests that the earthquake...
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    the most powerful earthquakes along the Dead Sea Transform. The northern Levant lies across the Dead Sea Transform (DST), the mainly strike-slip boundary...
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    starting from the Maraş triple junction at the northern end of the Dead Sea Transform, and ending at the Karlıova triple junction where it meets the North...
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  • injured in the meizoseismal area. The earthquake occurred along the Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system, an active tectonic plate boundary with seismicity...
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  • WSW–ENE trending Palmyra fold belt. It extends eastward from the Dead Sea Transform, dying out near the Euphrates Graben. The left lateral offset of the...
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    the Sinai Peninsula, Gulf of Aqaba and the coastal Levant via the Dead Sea transform. Eurasia also includes the Indian plate, Burma plate, Sunda plate...
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  • The Dead Sea Apes is a Quran story of dwellers by the Dead Sea who were transformed into apes for breaking the Sabbath. It is also a metaphor used, for...
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    earthquake. The archaeological site is located 10 km (6.2 mi) east of the Dead Sea Transform, and 1 km (0.62 mi) southwest of Natur. Identification attempts based...
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  • The earthquakes occurred on the portion of the Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. Sepphoris, north-northwest...
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    Balaton, in Hungary The Dead Sea, on the border of Israel, Palestine and Jordan, a pull-apart basin, formed along the Dead Sea Transform. Ebi Lake in China...
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  • event that occurred on March 16 in Lebanon along a strand of the Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system. The epicenter was located in the south of Lebanon...
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  • impacting the wider region. The Dead Sea Transform (DST) is a 1,000 km (620 mi) transform fault that spans from the Red Sea in the south to the East Anatolian...
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  • scientist, specializing in geophysics of the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea Transform. He is currently a professor of Geophysics at Tel Aviv University...
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    a number of moderate to large events that have occurred along the Dead Sea Transform fault system that marks the boundary of two tectonic plates; the African...
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  • complex triple junction between the northern end of the Dead Sea Transform, the mainly transform boundary between the African plate and the Arabian plate...
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    geologists today, the Dead Sea lies in a rift which results from a leftward discontinuity in the left lateral-moving Dead Sea Transform fault. Where a fault...
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    called the Dead Sea Transform (DST), and a divergent boundary with the African plate called the Red Sea Rift which runs the length of the Red Sea; North,...
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    east-northeast trend into Syria. The Israeli segment parallels the Dead Sea Transform which lies just to the east. The uplift events that created the mountain...
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