(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Muscat- The tenth Gulf Seismic Forum that features a conference on 'Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Studies in the Arabian Plate Region', began on Monday. It is being held under the patronage of H E Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Salim al Futaisi, Minister of Transport and Communications.
It is being hosted by Sultan Qaboos University (SQU).
The forum aims to enhance exchange of ideas and programmes among specialists and researchers and to display latest results in seismic hazard research.
Dr Rahma bint Ibrahim al Mahrouqi, deputy vice chancellor for Postgraduate Studies and Research at SQU, said that earthquakes are a natural phenomena that cause great loss of life and property, and disrupt people's lives and social development.
Abdullah al Enezi, from the National Seismic Network at Kuwait Institute for Scientific
Research, said the Gulf region is not immune to seismic hazard.
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