U.S.-Egypt Cooperative Research: Seismotectonics and Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment Studies

9810994 El-BazDescription：该奖项是对波士顿大学遥感中心主任Farouk El-Baz博士和埃及开罗国家遥感和空间科学管理局(NARSS)地球物理学教授Samir Riad博士的合作项目的支持。双方计划制定并启动一项计划，以评估埃及各地的地震风险。计划的任务包括：1)编制统一的历史地震活动数据数据库和目录；2)结合地震目录中关于地震活动空间时间分布的数据和来自地震构造学、古地震学、地貌学、活动断裂测绘、地壳形变大地测量和地球动力学模拟的相关地质输入，制作一个主震源模型；3)利用几种概率地震构造方法评估在特定时间段内发生地面震动的可能性。该项目将是国际地球科学计划题为“地中海盆地的地震构造学和地震危险评估”项目的一部分，该项目由Riad博士和其他人提交，并被IGCP.Scope科学委员会采纳：这一奖项将允许埃及和美国科学家之间进行合作，这些科学家具有重要的技术背景和专业知识来开展拟议的研究。这位美国科学家在埃及的地质、遥感数据收集和解释方面拥有丰富的经验，他还可以获得这项研究将使用的国际数据来源。这位埃及科学家在埃及的地质研究和监测地中海地区的地震活动方面拥有长期经验。他正在与其他人合作，将来自埃及的数据与来自地中海北部地区其他国家的数据进行关联。这一研究项目将提供更完整和统一的数据库信息、目录和地图，将对不同的地质和地球物理数据集以及地震危险性评估的不同方法进行比较评价，并将编制数据处理和分析软件。它还将使技术和风险评估方法在合作团队之间的转让成为可能。这一提议符合INT的目标，即在对双方都有利的领域加强美国与外国的合作。该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金计划的支持，该计划为两国的科学家和工程师提供资助，以开展这些合作活动。

9810994El-BazDescription: This award is for support of a cooperative project by Dr. Farouk El-Baz, Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University and Dr. Samir Riad, Professor of Geophysics at the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) in Cairo, Egypt. The two plan to formulate and start a program to assess the earthquake risks in various parts of Egypt. The tasks planned include: 1) compilation of a uniform data base and catalogue of historical seismicity data, 2) production of a master seismic source model combining the data on the special-temporal distribution of seismicity from the earthquake catalogue and relevant geological input from seismotectonics, paleo-seismology, geomorphology, mapping of active faults, geodetic estimates of crustal deformation, and geodynamic modeling, 3) evaluation of the probability of occurrence of ground shaking in a given time period using several probabilistic seismotectonic approaches. This project will be a part of an IGCP Project entitled "Seismotectonics and Seismic Hazard Assessment of the Mediterranean Basin," which Dr. Riad and others have submitted and which was adopted by the Scientific Committee of the IGCP.Scope: This award will allow collaboration between Egyptian and US scientists who have significant technical background and expertise to carry out the proposed research. The US scientist has extensive experience in Egypt's geology, remote sensing data gathering and interpretation, and he also has access to international sources of data that will be used in this study. The Egyptian scientist has long experience in geologic studies in Egypt and in monitoring seismic activities in the Mediterranean region. He is working with others to correlate data from Egypt with those from other countries in the northern Mediterranean area. This research project will provide more complete and uniform data base information, catalogues and maps, will provide comparative evaluations of the different geological and geophysical data sets, and of the different methodologies in the assessment of seismic hazard, and will result in the production of software for data handling and analysis. It will also make possible transfer of technology and risk assessment methodologies between the collaborating teams. This proposal meets the INT objective of increasing US-foreign collaboration in areas that benefit both sides. This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these cooperative activities.