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reaches the Africa-Arabia-Eurasia triple junction near Maras(Khair et al 2000,Meghraoui et
al.2003), confirmed by recent field studies (Chorowicz et al.2005,Bilal 2009a,b).
Thus, the Syrian rift is an active seismic zone oriented North-South.It could be identified
either by a satellite image or in the field (Fig.8). It cross the middle east through more
1200Km., from the Aqaba gulf in the South, to the Turkey in the North (Bilal and Touret
2001), successively through Lebanon, Syria and Turkey.
Fig. 8. Structure of the Syrian rift from the satellite image, Landsat 2005, and epicenters of
the seisms in 2005 - 2006 after the Syrian seismic centre