List of earthquakes in Egypt

Seismic hazard for the Eastern Mediterranean from the Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program (GSHAP) in terms of peak ground acceleration with a 10% chance of being exceeded (or a 90% chance of not being exceeded) within the next 50 years

This is a list of earthquakes in Egypt, including earthquakes that either had their epicenter in Egypt, or caused significant damage in Egypt.

Seismic hazard

Seismic hazard in Egypt is highest at the southern end of the Gulf of Suez, the northern Red Sea and around the Gulf of Aqaba, the location of the active plate boundaries. The highest risk is the southern end of the Dead Sea Transform.

Notable earthquakes

Date Time‡ Place Latitude Longitude Fatalities Magnitude Comments Sources
November 27, 885 Cairo 30.0 31.1 1,000 X [1]
March 18, 1068 morning Hejaz
see 1068 Near East earthquake		 28.5 36.7 ~20,000 ≥7.0 Affected a wide area of Egypt, Sinai, Hejaz. The location given is the macroseismic epicenter, although the earthquake was probably located in the Gulf of Aqaba [2][3]
September 2, 1754 Cairo 30.8 31.0 40,000 The death toll is questioned, but is not unreasonable for a shallow earthquake in an area of high population density [4]
August 7, 1847 Faiyum 29.5 30.5 185 XI [5]
September 12, 1955 06:09 Offshore Alexandria
see 1955 Alexandria earthquake		 32.2 29.6 18 6.3 Ms [6]
March 31, 1969 07:15 Red Sea, Sharm El Sheikh
see 1969 Sharm El Sheikh earthquake		 27.6 33.9 2 6.6 Ms [7]
October 12, 1992 13:09 Cairo
see 1992 Cairo earthquake		 29.778 31.144 545 5.8 Mb [8]
November 22, 1995 04:15 Gulf of Aqaba
see 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake		 28.826 34.799 8 7.3 Mw [9]

References

  1. ↑ "NGDC page on the 885 earthquake". National Geophysical Data Center. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  2. ↑ Ambraseys, N. N.; Melville, C. P.; Adams, R. D. (2005), The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea: A Historical Review, Cambridge University Press, pp. 30, 31, 101, ISBN 978-0521020251
  3. ↑ Klinger, Y.; Avoua, J. P.; Dorbath, L.; Abou Karaki, N.; Tisnerat, N. (2000), "Seismic behaviour of the Dead Sea fault along the Araba valley, Jordan" (PDF), Geophysical Journal International, Wiley-Blackwell, 142 (3): 772, doi:10.1046/j.1365-246x.2000.00166.x
  4. ↑ "NGDC page on the 1754 earthquake". National Geophysical Data Center. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "NGDC page on the 1847 earthquake". National Geophysical Data Center. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  6. ↑ Ambraseys, N. N.; Melville, C. P.; Adams, R. D. (2005), The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea: A Historical Review, Cambridge University Press, p. 88, ISBN 978-0521020251
  7. ↑ Ambraseys, N. N.; Melville, C. P.; Adams, R. D. (2005), The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea: A Historical Review, Cambridge University Press, pp. 91–93, ISBN 978-0521020251
  8. ↑ "NGDC page on the 1992 Cairo earthquake". Retrieved 9 June 2010.
  9. ↑ Klinger, Yann; Rivera, Luis; Haessler, Henri; Maurin, Jean-Christophe (August 1999). "Active Faulting in the Gulf of Aqaba: New Knowledge from the Mw 7.3 Earthquake of 22 November 1995" (PDF). Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Seismological Society of America. 89 (4): 1025–1036.


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