Magnetic fabrics of diamagnetic rocks and the strain field associated with the Dead Sea Fault, northern Israel

►The directions of the minimum principal AMS axes of diamagnetic rocks are good proxies for strain field directions near and away from major faults. ►Variations in the values of the degree of anisotropy (up to 2%) and susceptibility differences (up to 0.2) are related to differences in strain magnitudes and reflect the stored inelastic strain within the carbonate rocks. ►The principal AMS axes indicate a ∼W-E shortening along the N-S striking Dead Sea Fault, demonstrating contractional strike-slip motion during the Pleistocene.