The Meteorology and Seismic Monitoring Authority ruled out Iraq’s exposure to natural disasters, as happened recently in neighboring countries, and identified a triangle of earthquake zones in Iraq.
“Most of the countries in which natural disasters occur have great seas and very vast mountainous areas, in which the movement of rocks and the earth’s crust always abounds,” the authority’s media director, Amer Al-Jabri, said in a statement.
He added, “As for Iraq, there are no such natural effects due to its location and geography, and even the earthquakes that occur inside Iraq and may be felt by citizens sometimes, as most of them reach the limits of 3.4 or 3.5, and do not cause human or material losses.”
He continued, “Although Iraq is located on the seismic strip of the Zagros range, which borders it to the north of Turkey, and to the north-east it is bordered by southern Iran, therefore even the earthquakes that occur in the two neighbors, Iran and Turkey, have a slight reverberation on Iraq.”
He pointed out that “the Meteorology and Seismic Monitoring Authority diagnoses areas that it considers an earthquake triangle (the areas of Sulaymaniyah and a section of Chamchamal and Kalar, Khanaqin and Mandali in Diyala, and Badra in Wasit).
Source: National Iraqi News Agency