@article{ref1,
title="Fractal geometry of faults in relation to the 12 October 1992 Cairo earthquake",
journal="Natural hazards",
year="1994",
author="Arab, Nimr and Kazi, Asadullah and Rieke, Herman H.",
volume="10",
number="3",
pages="221-233",
abstract="The aim of this study is to demonstrate how the 12 October 1992 Cairo earthquake relates to the spatial geometry of the northern Egyptian fault systems. A box-counting algorithm was used, in a focused down approach (from regional to local scales) to analyze the fractal dimensions of the existing faults. The results indicate that these faults display fractal geometries that are self-similar over two to three orders of magnitude. It is shown that the northwest-southeast (Northern Red Sea) trending fault system has the lowest fractal dimension value. Coincidentally, this fault trend is the one that the fault plane solution shows to be active.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0921-030X",
doi="10.1007/BF00596143",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00596143"
}