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The Arabian Plate is surrounded by regions of relatively high seismicity. Accounting for this seismicity is of great importance for seismic hazard and risk assessments, seismic zoning, and land use. In this study, a homogenous earthquake catalogue of moment-magnitude (Mw) for the Arabian Plate is provided. The comprehensive and homogenous earthquake catalogue provided in the current study spatially involves the entire Arabian Peninsula and neighboring areas, covering all earthquake sources that can generate substantial hazard for the Arabian Plate mainland. The catalogue extends in time from 19 to 2015 with a total number of 13,156 events, of which 497 are historical events. Four polygons covering the entire Arabian Plate were delineated and different data sources including special studies, local, regional and international catalogues were used to prepare the earthquake catalogue. Moment magnitudes (Mw) that provided by original sources were given the highest magnitude type priority and introduced to the catalogues with their references. Earthquakes with magnitude differ from Mw were converted into this scale applying empirical relationships derived in the current or in previous studies. The four polygons catalogues were included in two comprehensive earthquake catalogues constituting the historical and instrumental periods. Duplicate events were identified and discarded from the current catalogue. The present earthquake catalogue was declustered in order to contain only independent events and investigated for the completeness with time of different magnitude spans.

  • Arabian Catalogue
  • Focal Mechanism
  • Catalogue Declustring 2015
  • Final Historical Arabian

 

           

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1 Seismic microzonation for Muscat region, Sultanate of Oman
2 Quarry blasts assessment and their environmentalimpacts on the nearby oil pipelines, southeast ofHelwan City, Egypt
3 Site-specific shear wave velocity investigation for geotechnical engineering applications using seismic refraction and 2D multi-channel analysis of surface waves
4 Estimating the near-surface site response to mitigate earthquake disasters at the October 6th city, Egypt, using HVSR and seismic techniques
5 Efficiency of horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) in defining the fundamental frequency in Muscat Region, Sultanate of Oman: a comparative study
6 Subsurface investigation on Quarter 27 of May 15th city, Cairo, Egypt using electrical resistivity tomography and shallow seismic refraction techniques
7 Delineation of a paleo-channel utilizing integrated geophysical techniques at the port of duqm area, sultanate of oman
8 Deterministic seismic hazard assessment close to a gas field in northern Oman
9 Effects of surface geology on the ground-motion at New Borg El-Arab City, Alexandria, Northern Egypt
10 Evaluation of seismic hazard at the northwestern part of Egypt
11 Near-surface site characterization at Quriyat City, Sultanate of Oman using HVSR and MASW techniques
12 Probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment along Oman coast from submarine earthquakes in the Makran subduction zone
13 Geophysical investigation in the Northwestern part of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt
14 Compiling an earthquake catalogue for the Arabian Plate, Western Asia
15 Tsunami hazard assessment along Diba-Oman and Diba-Al-Emirates coasts
16 Site-specific earthquake ground motion parameters at the southeastern part of Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
17 Seismic Liquefaction Potential in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
18 Developing a seismic source model for the Arabian Plate
19 Probabilistic and deterministic estimates of near‐feld tsunami hazards in northeast Oman
20 Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment for the Arabian Peninsula
21 Shear Wave Velocity Characteristics in Parts of Muscat, Sultanate of Oman – A Measure of Earthquake Hazard Assessment
22 Integrated ground penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography and multichannel analysis of surface waves for detecting near-surface caverns at Duqm area, Sultanate of Oman
23 Deaggregation of probabilistic seismic hazard for selected cities in the Arabian Peninsula
24 Updating a probabilistic seismic hazard model for Sultanate of Oman
25 Probability of magnitude detection for the seismological network of Oman
26 Site-specific deterministic and probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment for Diba-Oman and Diba-Al-Emirates
27 Site-specific seismic hazard levels at the economic zone of Duqm, Oman
28 Characterization of Seismic Source Zones in the Gulf of Aden Region