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Seismic Activity and Energy Release of Earthquakes along the Gulf of Aqaba, Egypt

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The Gulf of Aqaba is situated along the southern part of the Dead Sea Rift Area transform (DST), 1000 km (620 miles), the boundary between the African plate and the Arabian plate. It is situated toward the east of the Sinai landmass and west of Saudi Arabia. It is one of the joints interfacing the Asian and African landmasses. The Gulf expands 180 km from Eilat and Aqaba and joins the Red Sea in the Strait of Tiran, with the most extensive purpose of 28 km. On November 22, 1995, the biggest seismic tremor estimating 7.0 degrees happened along parts of the dead left line in the Gulf of Aqaba close to the port of Nuweiba in Egypt. This tremor made extraordinary harm Egypt and neighboring nations. Consequently, a few point by point investigations of seismology and geophysics have been led in the Gulf of Aqaba. In the territory researched, the vast majority of the ongoing seismic action revolved around the Gulf of Aqaba is portrayed by the contribution of moderate central quakes, an immediate aftereffect of the relative development between the plates of Africa, Sinai and the Arabian Peninsula. Seismic Energy along the Gulf of Aqaba locale is assessed utilizing a brief period (50 tests for every second) executed by the Egyptian National Seismic Network amid the period 1998‒2017. The connection between the dispatch and greatness of quakes in the Gulf of Aqaba demonstrated that the vast majority of the seismic Energy discharge originates from the biggest occasions and is packed in the inside, while it is moderately low in the southern and northern parts of the Gulf.

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The authors acknowledge the Egyptian National Seismic Network and Aswan Earthquake Research Center, the Department of Seismology, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) (Cairo, Egypt) for kind support me with data and providing with scientific facilities to perform this study.

The authors are grateful to the reviewer, Prof. E.A. Rogozhin (Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, Russia), for his suggestions which have greatly helped to improve our manuscript.

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Omar, K.A., El-Amin, E.M., Dahy, S.A. et al. Seismic Activity and Energy Release of Earthquakes along the Gulf of Aqaba, Egypt. Geotecton. 53, 765–773 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852119060116

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