1992 Cairo earthquake

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Egypt 1992-10-12 13:09:55 usp0005f89 267175 12 October 1992 3:09:55 pm EET Egypt 1 29.778 31.144 Bullseye1.png 40 Cairo 30.056 31.229 10 right 290 center infobox 5.8 b y 22 km on 29.778 31.144 inline,title 8 Normal 561 dead, 12,392 injured Greater Cairo, the Delta, northern Upper Egypt 1992 Dahshur (Egypt) Earthquake aftermath 02.png Rubble from falling parapets litters a Cairo street in the aftermath of the 1992 Dahshur (Egypt) Earthquake. The 1992 Cairo earthquake, also known as the Dahshur earthquake, occurred at 15:09 local time (13:09 UTC) on 12 October, with an epicenter in the Western Desert near Dahshur, Giza, 35 km on south of Egypt's capital city, Cairo. The earthquake had a magnitude of either 5.8Omar Khaled Attia Mohsen Fergany El Sayed Hassoup Awad Elkhashab Hussein Modeling of strong ground motion during the 1992 Cairo earthquake in the urban area northern Greater of Cairo, Egypt NRIAG Journal of Astronomy and Geophysics June 2013 2 1 166–174 10.1016/j.nrjag.2013.06.019 2013JAsGe...2..166O free Abd el-aal Abd el aziz Khairy Modelling of seismic hazard at the northeastern part of greater Cairo metropolitan area, Egypt Journal of Geophysics and Engineering 11 March 2010 7 1 75–90 10.1088/1742-2132/7/1/007 2010JGE.....7...75A en 1742-2132 free or 5.9,Thenhaus P.C. Celebi M. Sharp R.V. The October 12, 1992, Dahshur, Egypt, Earthquake Earthquakes & Volcanoes 1993 24 1 27–41 https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70169014 11 October 2020Moustafa Sayed S.R. Takenaka Hiroshi Stochastic ground motion simulation of the 12 October 1992 Dahshour earthquake Acta Geophysica 1 September 2009 57 3 636–656 10.2478/s11600-009-0012-y 2009AcGeo..57..636M 140652478 https://link.springer.com/article/10.2478/s11600-009-0012-y 11 October 2020 en 1895-7455 subscription El-Sayed Attia Arvidsson Ronald Kulhánek Ota The 1992 Cairo earthquake: A case study of a small destructive event Journal of Seismology 1998 2 4 293–302 10.1023/A:1009717023043 1998JSeis...2..293E 129754820 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1009717023043 11 October 2020 subscription but was unusually destructive for its size, causing 561 deaths and injuring 12,392 people.1 November 1992 رئيس الوزراء فى حديث"للاهرام"حول قضايا الساعه:شقه جديده بالمرافق خلال هذا الشهر لكل من انهار مسكنه Al-Ahram http://cedej.bibalex.org/DocumentFrm.aspx?documentID=288774 23 November 2022 It also made "over half a million people homeless", destroying or significantly damaging "129,000 residential buildings and houses" in tens of cities and villages across 16 governorates, in Greater Cairo, the Delta, and northern Upper Egypt.Shawkat Yahia Elmazzahi Dina Mapping the Fallout of the 1992 Dahshur (Egypt) Earthquake https://marsadomran.info/en/2023/09/3031/ مرصد العمران 29 March 2025 6 September 2023by4 yes It was the most damaging seismic event to affect Egypt since 1847.Fergany Elsayed A. Sawada Sumio Estimation of Ground Motion at Damaged Area During 1992 Cairo Earthquake Using Empirical Green's Functions Seismological Research Letters 1 January 2009 80 1 81–88 10.1785/gssrl.80.1.81 2009SeiRL..80...81F https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/article-abstract/80/1/81/143495/Estimation-of-Ground-Motion-at-Damaged-Area-During?redirectedFrom=fulltext en 0895-0695 9 June 2010 subscription Geology Cairo sits within a diffuse zone of faulting that transfers extension from the Gulf of Suez Rift to the Manzala rift beneath the Nile Delta.Bosworth William Huchon Philippe McClay Ken The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Basins Journal of African Earth Sciences October 2005 43 1–3 334–378 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X0500124X 9 June 2010 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2005.07.020 2005JAfES..43..334B subscription Damage More than 129,000 residential buildings and houses were affected by the earthquake across 17 of Egypt’s 27 governorates, disproportionately affecting heavily populated governorates near to the epicentre, with Giza, where the epicentre was, seeing over two fifths of the damage. Over 12,000 residential buildings and houses (12%) collapsed or were so heavily damaged, they were identified to be demolished, while a further 28,000 buildings (25%), required significant repairs or partial demolition (usually of a floor or more), and the remaining two thirds were found to need minor repair. Some 216 mosques and 350 schools were badly damaged.NGDC page on the Cairo earthquake http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=5339&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display dead https://web.archive.org/web/20210225061152/https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=5339&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display February 25, 2021 9 June 2010 Around 40,000 of the affected buildings were in the capital, Cairo, representing over one third of all buildings. The areas of greatest damage were in the historic neighbourhoods of Historic Cairo, Old Cairo and Boulaq.NGDC page on the Cairo earthquake http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=5339&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display dead https://web.archive.org/web/20210225061152/https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=5339&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display February 25, 2021 9 June 2010 Damage was reported to have affected 212 out of a total of 560 historical monuments.Sykora D. Look D. Croci G. Karaesman E. Karaesmen E. 1993 NCEER-93-0016: Reconnaissance of Damage to Historic Monuments in Cairo, Egypt Following the October 12, 1992 Dahshur Earthquake http://www.buffalo.edu/mceer/catalog.host.html/content/shared/www/mceer/publications/NCEER-93-0016.detail.html 9 June 2010 Most of the severe damage was confined to older masonry structures and particularly those built of adobe. The exception was a modern reinforced concrete building in Heliopolis, killing 79 people. Fortunately, many of the inhabitants were outside of the building at the time of the event. It was later revealed that many additional stories were added to the building illegally and the ground floor/basement had been opened up to accommodate community amenities, including a laundry."Earthquake Vulnerability in the Middle East" DEGG, MARTIN, and JACQUELINE HOMAN. Geography, vol. 90, no. 1, 2005, pp. 54–66. JSTOR. Accessed 16 July 2021. The villages of Giza, were some of the worse hit as they were very close to the epicentre, where 5292 houses collapsed or were damaged beyond repair, and 12,700 needed significant repair, while three villages were almost entirely levelled in Markaz Al-Ayyat. Liquefaction was reported from areas near the epicenter.Fergany Elsayed A. Sawada Sumio 1 January 2009 Estimation of Ground Motion at Damaged Area During 1992 Cairo Earthquake Using Empirical Green's Functions https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/article-abstract/80/1/81/143495/Estimation-of-Ground-Motion-at-Damaged-Area-During?redirectedFrom=fulltext Seismological Research Letters en 80 1 81–88 2009SeiRL..80...81F 10.1785/gssrl.80.1.81 0895-0695 9 June 2010 subscription The third most affected governorate was Fayoum, where villages in its north-east were also close to the epicentre, especially in Markaz Tamiya where heavy damage was sustained in 5135 houses in the villages of Al-Rawda, Manshiyat Al-Gamal, Qasr Rashwan and Fanous. The high number of deaths and injuries (561 and 12,392 respectively) was partly due to the amount of panic caused by the earthquake in Cairo itself. A large block fell from the Great Pyramid of Giza. Earthquake characteristics thumb|Isoseismal map for the 1992 Cairo earthquake The earthquake was felt throughout most of northern Egypt, in Alexandria, Port Said and as far south as Asyut, and in southern Israel. The calculated focal mechanism suggests that this event originated on a WNW-ESE or W-E trending normal fault with a small strike-slip component.Hussein H.M. 1999 Source process of the October 12, 1992 Cairo earthquake Annali di Geofisica 42 4 665–674 http://www.earth-prints.org/bitstream/2122/1402/1/04%20hussein.pdf 9 June 2010 10.4401/ag-3746 free 4 March 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114432/http://www.earth-prints.org/bitstream/2122/1402/1/04%20hussein.pdf dead The aftershocks extended about 11 km on to the south-east of the main shock epicentre, indicating unidirectional rupture propagation. The estimated fault rupture length was also 11 km on. The earthquake consisted of two sub-events, the second located about 27 km on south-east of the first.Hussein H.M. Korrat I.M. Abdl Fattah A.K. amp 1996 The October 12, 1992 Cairo earthquake a complex multiple shock Bulletin of the International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering 30 9–21 http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2625898 9 June 2010 4 September 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120904022237/http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2625898 dead Response The government was criticized for its lack of action. Islamic fundamentalist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood stepped in to provide aid.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-15-mn-411-story.html Muslim Groups Take Lead in Cairo Quake Relief : Egypt: Mosques house and feed the homeless. Disappointment in government assistance is expressed. 25 July 2021 See also Egypt Earth sciences List of earthquakes in 1992 List of earthquakes in Egypt List of earthquakes in the Levant References 30em External links 267175 Category:Earthquakes in Egypt Cairo Earthquake, 1992 Cairo earthquake Category:October 1992 in Egypt