Abstract
The Kima area is located in the southeastern part of Aswan city where the Aswan wastewater treatment plant and one of the giant factories in the Middle East for chemical and fertilization. The area is very close to the main active seismic zone in South Egypt, where November 7, 2010 earthquake (M 4.6( occurred. The earthquake was felt strongly and caused minor damage (cracks) to different buildings in the Kima area. This earthquake motivates us to perform the current study for earthquake disaster mitigation in this area. The main target of the study is the evaluation of the local soil conditions based on Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves and Horizontal to Vertical Spectral Ratio seismic techniques. The outputs results include different parameters (Vs30, the resonance frequency, the amplification factor, and the NEHRP site classification). The predominant NEHRP site class is class D occupying the middle part of the Kima area. The resonance frequency ranged from 0.62 to 13.8 Hz over all the investigated areas and has a small range close to the factory site (0.62–0.78 Hz).
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