Week 5: Volcanoes

 After having thoroughly researched through Egypt's map, I have come to find out that there no active or even inactive volcanoes within Egypt.

Therefore Egypt does not encounter any sort of volcanic activity, as there is none to even worry about.

Although Egypt does not have any volcanoes; it seems that other locations within Africa, certainly do. 

Sources: https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/africa.html

Week 3: Earthquakes

 As Egypt has low seismic activity, earthquakes are not that much of a common occurrence, therefore they really are not considered as big of an issue as other disasters that occur. Despite this however, the couple of earthquakes that the country has experienced, have certainly been devastating. 

The biggest earthquake within Egypt that was ever recorded, was that in Cairo 1992. Though the maginitude was only around 5.9, it caused the death of over 561 people and injured more than 12,392. Thousands of homes within Cairo had been destroyed as well, leaving many homeless.

Prior to this, that biggest earthquake in Egypt had been way back in 1847.

After having done some research, I was unable to find any specific guidelines or regulations that Egypt follows, should they experience more earthquakes. The disaster being considered a low hazard however, is perhaps why there isn't much on this; it might not be too big of a concern, compared to other disasters they face such as river floods and extreme heat.

Sources:

• https://thinkhazard.org/en/report/40765-arab-republic-of-egypt
• https://earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2022-12-27-00-11-02-utc-4-7-10
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209099771200017X

Week 2: Plate Tectonic Boundaries

 As Egypt is located within the northeastern corner for the African plate, it makes contact with both the Arabian and Eurasian plate. Due to this, Egypt finds itself surrounded by three active tectonic plates. 

These tectonic plates include: the Gulf of Aqaba-Dead Sea Transform Fault, the African-Eurasian plate boundary, and the Gulf of Suez-Red Sea plate boundary.

The majority of seismic activity within Egypt is considered to be from low to moderate. However, this does not apply to the southern end of the Gulf of Suez in which hazardous activity becomes much more strong and frequent. 

Due to its rather low seismic activity however, Egypt hasn't really been struck by any large and devastating earthquakes, within the last few couple of years. The last large earthquake recorded that occurred within Egypt that was caused by the Gulf of Suez, occurred in Cairo on October 12, 1992.