Earthquakes are the most destructive natural hazards because of their adversely severe
impacts on urban areas. Earthquakes affect people's lives and properties, thus captivating …

Investing in disaster risk reduction and resilience-increasing strategies requires a
comprehensive understanding of multi-hazard risk. In this study, we assess the direct …

This paper presents the seismic hazard assessment and seismic zoning of the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) and its surroundings based on the probabilistic approach. The area that has …

This paper aims to quantify the impact of lateral force resisting system detailing on the
performance and cost of RC shear wall buildings in regions with high uncertainty in …

A probabilistic seismic hazard assessment in terms of peak ground acceleration (PGA) and
spectral acceleration (SA) values, for both 10% and 5% probability of exceedance in 50 …

Being in proximity of high-seismicity regions, Dubai and United Arab Emirates (UAE) in
general are characterized by a high level of seismic hazard uncertainty. This study presents …

The paper presents an earthquake hazard study for Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The
seismicity of the area is outlined and discussed in terms of available earthquake data and …

Background Assessment of historical earthquake events helps in revealing its distribution
and coupling it with other geographical data provides a holistic view about areas and people …

We create and test a framework for probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia using Monte Carlo simulation, recently developed models of seismic source …

The growth of tall buildings in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has paved the way for a surge
in interest in the country's seismic vulnerability investigation. The case study building …