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Abstract Several Egyptian codes of practice have been published in Egypt during the past two decades, for example “The Regulation of Earthquake – Resistant Design of Building in Egypt” [ESEE 1988], “The Egyptian Code for Load and Forces“ [ECLF 1993] released in 1993, “the Egyptian Code of Practicf for Loads and Forces” [ECLF 2003] released in January 2003, forwarded by the [ECLF 2008]. Great inconsistencies (variances) were observed among the different Egyptian seismic codes and the international current well known seismic building codes namely the Eurocode [EC8:2003] and the international building code [IBC 2009] concerning the absolute values of the calculated base shear forces obtained by the considered seismic codes, in addition to great difference concerning the method of determining the |