Dead Sea Transform
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The Dead Sea Transform 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 Marash triple junction to the northern end of the Red S
Panorama of Jordan Valley
Jordan Rift Valley
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The Jordan Rift Valley, also Jordan Valley, is an elongated endorheic basin located in modern-day Israel, Jordan, Palestine and Syria. This geographic region includes the entire length of the Jordan R
Dead Sea Transform
…could explain the rhombohedral shape of the Dead Sea and the exceptional depth of the basin. The Jordan valley segment of the DST, which is part of the Jordan Rift Valley, runs for about 100 km from the northwestern part of the Dead Sea to the southeastern part of the Sea of Galilee along the Jordan Valley. A slip rate…
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Northern section of the Great Rift Valley. The Sinai Peninsula is in center and the Dead Sea and Jordan River valley above.
View of the Jordan Valley, where the earthquake occurred