Migration of local earthquakes in the Gulf of Aqaba, North Red Sea

the gulf of aqabah has been considered one of the most seismically-active regions in the middle east during the last 15 years; a catalogue of 1,415 earthquakes (duration magnitude md > 2. 8) during 19851995, compiled by al-arifi (1996) and al-shaabi (1998), mainly based on data from king saud university. seismic studies center (ssc), saudi arabia, for 28°- 30°n and 30°-36°e, has been used for studying local aftershock migration. aftershocks migrated northwards about 60 km for the 1993 sequence and about 70 km for the 1995 sequence and also to shallow focal depths (15 km focal depth for 1993 main-shock). depths reduced as time elapsed until reaching 2 km for the last strong aftershock (md=5. 2) which occurred during the late stage of the sequence . the 1993 main-shock caused a redistribution of stresses to the parallel faults' segment where the largest 1993 aftershock occurred triggering these faults' segment to become an area of stress nucleation and generated the 1995 main-shock