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The present-day relative motion between the Arabian and African plates is estimated to be 4 - 8 mm/yr, based on plate tectonic models and recent GPS observations.
The Red Sea Rift System represents a divergent boundary that separates the Late Precambrian Arabian-Nubian Shield into two significant shields; the Nubian Shield and the Arabian Shield.
The Red Sea is a part of a system of rifts and embryonic ocean basins extending from East Africa to the Levant region, which was formed by the Oligocene-Recent breakup of the African–Arabian continent.
The initiation of Red Sea rifting is suggested to be ~30 Ma (Schmidt et al., 1982; Le Pichon and Gaulier, 1988), but more recent GPS estimates have proposed ~24 Ma (ArRajehi et al., 2010). This rate decreases northward to 1.5 cm/yr in the central Red Sea and ~1 cm/yr in the northern Red Sea (Chu and Gordon, 1998; DeMets et al., 2010).
The Dead Sea rift is a sinistral transform plate boundary separating the Sinai sub-plate in the west (part of African plate) and the Arabian plate in the east.
The Dead Sea transform (DST) is one of the major morphotectonic features of the Middle East and is the source for most historical and recent earthquakes. It represents the boundary between the Sinai micro plate and the Arabian plate (Fig. 1).
The instrumental and historic records indicate a seismic slip rate of 0.15–0.35 cm/y during the last 1000–1500 y, while estimates of the average Pliocene—Pleistocene rate are 0.7–1.0 cm/y.
