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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
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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
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Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and
Jordan Rift Valley
…בִּקְעָת הַיַרְדֵּן, romanized: Biqʿāṯ hay-Yardēn, Arabic: الغور, romanized: al-Ghawr), is an elongated endorheic basin located in modern-day Israel, Jordan, Palestine and Syria. This geographic region includes the entire length of the Jordan River from its sources, through the Hula Valley, the Korazim…
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