Movement of Arabian Plate causing quakes

ABHA: The director general of the National Center for Seismology and Volcanology Hani Zahran said that the recent seismic activity is primarily due to the Arabian Plate moving northeast.
That's why seismic activity in general is concentrated along its edges in various regions of the Gulf of Aqaba and in its eastern front of the Kingdom, with repeated seismic activity along the Arabian shield. The movement of the tectonic plate is leading to the gradual widening in the Red Sea.
Zahran said that in this context, he wanted to point out that National Center for Seismology and Volcanology recorded a 3.2 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale on July 23 in the Gulf of Aqaba in an area 13 km from Mqna city.
This activity is not new to this region. On Monday morning, there was another earthquake in the Gulf of Aqaba.
There were a number of small earthquakes in the area in 1983 and 1993, and a big earthquake in 1995. The strongest of the earthquakes registered a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale at the epicenter, and it affected nearby cities on the Red Sea.