Earthquake distribution patterns in Africa: Their relationship to variations in lithospheric and geological structure, and their rheological implications

TJ Craig, JA Jackson, K Priestley… - Geophysical Journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We use teleseismic waveform inversion, along with depth phase analysis, to constrain the
centroid depths and source parameters of large African earthquakes. The majority of seismic …

Midyan Peninsula, northern Red Sea, Saudi Arabia: seismic imaging and regional interpretation

RE Tubbs Jr, HGA Fouda, AM Afifi… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Midyan Peninsula of northwest Saudi Arabia offers an exceptional
opportunity to observe a complex interplay of rifting, salt tectonics, and strike-slip faulting …

On the development of a seismic source zonation model for seismic hazard assessment in western Saudi Arabia

HM Zahran, V Sokolov, MJ Roobol, ICF Stewart… - Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
A new seismic source model has been developed for the western part of the Arabian
Peninsula, which has experienced considerable earthquake activity in the historical past …

Identifying active faults by improving earthquake locations with InSAR data and Bayesian estimation: the 2004 Tabuk (Saudi Arabia) earthquake sequence

W Xu, R Dutta, S Jónsson - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A sequence of shallow earthquakes of magnitudes≤ 5.1 took place in 2004 on the eastern
flank of the Red Sea rift, near the city of Tabuk in northwestern Saudi Arabia. The …

The key role of conjugate fault system in importing earthquakes into the eastern flank of the Red Sea

AK Abdelfattah, C Jallouli, M Fnais, S Qaysi… - Earth, Planets and …, 2021 - Springer
This study aims to synthesize seismic observations with gravity and magnetic data and to
suggest a new scenario on the development of the Harrat Lunayyir (HL) tectonic system on …

Seismicity and seismotectonic setting of the Red Sea and adjacent areas

SEH Youssef - The Red Sea: The formation, morphology …, 2015 - Springer
It was thought that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was characterized by low seismic activity
and that the Arabian shield was relatively stable. After establishing the Saudi National …

[HTML][HTML] Seismicity of the Neom megaproject area, Northwestern Saudi Arabia

H Alzahrani, K Abdelrahman, S Qaysi… - Journal of King Saud …, 2022 - Elsevier
A new seismicity map has been developed for Neom megaproject in the north-western zone
of Saudi Arabia which has experienced considerable earthquake activity in the historical …

Natural hazards in Saudi Arabia

AM Al-Bassam, FK Zaidi… - Extreme natural events …, 2014 - books.google.com
During the last few decades the frequency of the occurrence of natural hazards has
increased mainly due to the inhabitation of zones prone to natural hazards. Population …

Geological assessment of the Neom mega-project area, northwestern Saudi Arabia: an integrated approach

AY Kahal - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020 - Springer
The Neom mega-project area is located on the northwestern Arabian Plate and is
associated with the Red Sea divergence and the Gulf of Aqaba-Dead Sea transform …

First level seismic microzonation map of Al-Madinah province, western Saudi Arabia using the geographic information system approach

SSR Moustafa, N SN Al-Arifi, MK Jafri, M Naeem… - Environmental earth …, 2016 - Springer
The identification of natural hazard prone areas for future planning requires an efficient
decision support tool to provide the appropriate weights for the various topographical …