Faculty of Al-Alsun and Mass Communication Organizes Seminar on Causes and Preventive Measures of Earthquakes
Faculty of Al-Alsun and Mass Communication Organizes Seminar on Causes and Preventive Measures of Earthquakes
30 Mar 2023
To mitigate the fear of earthquakes that has recently increased worldwide, the Community Service and Environment Development Sector of the Faculty of Al-Alsun and Mass Communication organized a seminar on “Earthquakes: Causes, Effects and Preventive measures” on March 22, 2023.
The seminar was led by Dr. Amr El-Sharkawy, a researcher at the National Research Institute for Astronomy and Geophysics, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Beni Suef University, and a visiting researcher in the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Mathematics, Keele University, Germany.
Dr. El-Sharkawy discussed the causes of earthquakes, the methods of measuring the earthquakes’ strength and location, and the information provided by seismic monitoring networks, especially in the Arab Republic of Egypt. In addition, Dr. El-Sharkawy explored how recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria occurred, and gave tips on how to survive earthquakes.