The Dead Sea fault system runs from the Red Sea north to a triple junction in south-central Turkey and consists of a main fault and several secondary faults . The fault system is at its widest and deepest in the gulf where a transition from proto-oceanic rifting to transform faulting occurs . Moving northward through Lebanon and Syria , where the DST is known as the Yammouneh fault , the trace follows a restraining bend and splits into several strands that include the Serghaya and Rachaya faults . These strands are believed to be the source of the Near East earthquakes of 1759 . The increased seismic activity following the Aqaba earthquake was detected by the Syrian National Seismic Network ( SNSN ) and occurred in the area of the Serghaya and Rachaya faults within a area near the restraining bend in southwest Syria . The SNSN consists of twenty vertical-component seismometers , but only nine instruments recorded the swarm
Near East earthquakes of 1759
Near East earthquakes of 1759
1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake