Seismic Hazard Assessment and Seismic Safty for the

Proposed Astronomical Observatories at Abu Tartur and

Fayed Sites, Egypt

S. El-Hadidy, A.A. Tealeb, A.A. Mohamed, A.-R. Kamal & K. Atiya

National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt.

The assessment of seismic hazard for the selected sites was done by delineating the seismic sources in
the northern part of Egypt, selecting the controlling earthquake, determining the attenuation models of
peak ground acceleration with distance, and finally defining the seismic hazard at the selected site.
The soil effect at the site of interest is calculated and introduced to the estimated ground motion. Both
of deterministic and probabilistic approaches are used to evaluate the maximum ground motion at both
of Abu-Tartur and Fayed sites.
KEYWORDS: Egypt, Seismic hazard, Controllling earthquake, Attenuation, Soil effect, Ground
motion.