A review of seismic hazard assessment studies and hazard description in the building codes for Egypt

R Sawires, JA Peláez, RE Fat-Helbary… - Acta geodaetica et …, 2016 - Springer
Reduction of damage in earthquake-prone areas requires modern building codes that
should be continuously updated to reflect the improvement in our understanding of the …

Updated probabilistic seismic‐hazard values for Egypt

R Sawires, JA Peláez… - Bulletin of the …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Seismic hazard in terms of mean peak ground acceleration (PGA) and spectral acceleration
(SA) values has been computed for Egypt using both historical and instrumental earthquake …

An updated seismic source model for Egypt

R Sawires, JA Peláez, RE Fat-Helbary… - … to optimal seismic …, 2015 - books.google.com
Since the pioneering work of Cornell [1], it is clear that seismic hazard assessment depends
on several models, among them perhaps one of the most significant, and usually poorly …

Delineation and characterization of a new seismic source model for seismic hazard studies in Egypt

R Sawires, JA Peláez, HA Ibrahim, RE Fat-Helbary… - Natural Hazards, 2016 - Springer
In the present study, a new seismic source model for the Egyptian territory and its
surroundings is proposed. This model can be readily used for seismic hazard assessment …

Geophysical/Geotechnical investigation for earthquake risk mitigation of the strategic and development projects, South Egypt

A Mohamed - The International Conference on Civil and …, 2018 - iccae.journals.ekb.eg
AbstractMany strategic and development projects were achieved in southern part of Egypt
(eg Aswan High Dam, New Aswan city, New Tushka city, Aswan cement factory, Wadi …