1 23 Pure and Applied Geophysics pageoph ISSN 0033-4553 Pure Appl. Geophys. DOI 10.1007/s00024-018-2024-5 Review of the Seismotectonic Setting of the Gulf of Aqaba with Respect to the 27 June 2015 and the 16 May 2016 Earthquake Sequences Abd el-aziz Khairy Abd el-aal, Shaimaa Ismail Mostafa & H. E. Abdelhafiez