Seismic structure beneath the Gulf of Aqaba and adjacent areas based on the  tomographic inversion of regional earthquake data

El Khrepy, Sami; Koulakov, Ivan; Al-Arifi, Nassir; Petrunin, Alexey G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-965-2016

Articles | Volume 7, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-965-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-965-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 3

Research article

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20 Jun 2016

Research article |

| 20 Jun 2016

Seismic structure beneath the Gulf of Aqaba and adjacent areas based on the tomographic inversion of regional earthquake data

Sami El Khrepy, Ivan Koulakov, Nassir Al-Arifi, and Alexey G. Petrunin

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Final revised paper (published on 20 Jun 2016)
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RC1: 'Review of ”Seismic structure beneath the Gulf of Aqaba and adjacent areas based on the tomographic inversion of regional earthquake data” by Khrepy, Koulakov, Al-Arifi and Petrunin, for publication in Solid Earth.', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Feb 2016
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Sami El Khrepy, 16 Apr 2016
RC2: 'Review of: “Seismic structure beneath the Gulf of Aqaba and adjacent areas based on the tomographic inversion of regional earthquake data”', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Mar 2016
- AC3: 'responses to reviewer 2', Sami El Khrepy, 16 Apr 2016
EC1: 'Editor's report', Christopher Juhlin, 14 Mar 2016
- AC1: 'the updated manuscript is ready for submission', Sami El Khrepy, 16 Apr 2016

Short summary

Three-dimensional seismic structures beneath the Gulf of Aqaba are presented for the first time for the southern part of the Dead Sea. A regional earthquake tomography method is applied to P and S waves data. The new results indicate new perspectives suggesting an oceanic nature of the crust in the northern part of the Red Sea, disagreeing with the hypothesis of a gradual stretching of the continental crust.