Seismicity in Egypt

Earthquakes

Egypt is located on the northeastern of the African Continent. The study of earthquakes activity and seismic hazards assessment of Egypt is very important due to the great and rapid spreading of large investments in national projects, especially the nuclear power plant that will be held in the northern part of Egypt ( Science Direct ). Even though Egypt has low seismicity, it has had damaging earthquake effects in it's history. Egypt is affected by earthquakes along the major tectonic plate structure. Egypt is a geologically active region, and seismic activity occurs. Although earthquakes are rare, damage can be severe, especially to older buildings due to lax building codes and shoddy structure. The last major earthquake that resulted in damage was in 1996 ( Safety Report ).

Precautions Made 

Earthquakes are very rare when it comes to living in Egypt. From what I tried to research, I couldn't find any precautions that they need to take for earthquakes. If they had any earthquakes, they were very small and didn't do much damage. Although, Egypt has one of the biggest earthquakes of all times in Alexandria, Egypt  in 365 A.D. Thousands and thousands of people died, and even threw ships miles back into inland ( Donna Dickens ). But earthquakes aren't a big thing in Egypt so they don't take as many precautions as other places.