Important issues in seismic hazard assessment arise from slow convergent plates that are less easy to solve than in subduction zones. North Africa is a major study area in this context to study the reactivation in compression of a complex Cenozoic passive margin. This work based on the MARADJA'03 and MARADJA2/SAMRA'05 cruises data (multibeam bathymetry, seismic-reflection, side-scan sonar, backscattering, CHIRP, gravimetry) made possible for the first time a characterization of the multi-scale structure of the offshore Algerian margin. Sedimentary (among which, sediment instabilities) and tectonic (geomorphology, folds, faults) records reveal large recent and active structures as well as the geological inheritage of the margin. Two main tec...