“…This fault divides not only the Persian Gulf from the Oman Sea at the eastern end of the Strait of Hormuz but also the eastern boundary of a widespread and intensive seismicity within the ZFTB ( Fig. 4; Glennie, 1996;Glennie et al, 1973;Hussieni, 1988;Khattab, 1994Khattab, , 1995. Beydoun et al (1992) suggested the Dibba fault as the eastern boundary of the Zagros foreland basin.…”