GEOSCIENCES PERSPECTIVES ON NATURAL HAZARDS ON THE ARABIAN GULF COUNCIL COUNTRIES

Frequent earthquakes in Iran and Turkey, cyclones in the Indian oceans, potential landslides in Oman and United Arab Emirate, mountains and magnetic storms along the coasts of Gulf Council Cooperation (GCC) countries, or what locally known as TAMU, continue to raise concerns over the integrated national hazard assessments plans in GCC countries. These concerns need further research to ascertain whether scientists and engineers are overestimating or underestimating the potential natural hazards. However, these hazards would increase the attention to emergency response, and investment in related scientific and engendering research. The research describes the specific role of earth science in the GCC countries to improve access to information necessary for hazard mitigation and emergency response, and to improve knowledge of how to mitigate geological hazards in the GCC countries. The research also explains briefly what happened in Arabian Sea area during and after Gonu Cyclone, June 2007, the strongest tropical cyclone on record of the region, which is taken as an example.