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Four earthquakes hit northern and southern Iraq
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 13:10
[Baghdad - where]
Seismic observatories recorded the seismic monitoring network four earthquakes in Iraq on Monday.
He said between the General Authority for meteorological and seismic monitoring of the Ministry of Transport, confirmed that tremors earth stations occurred in at eight and six minutes on the evening of Monday the northwestern city of Mosul, was of 3 degrees on the Richter scale, was the site of the quake is just 22 km northwest city of Tal Afar, 55 km north of East of Sinjar.
The statement added that another earthquake had occurred in the same day in southern Iraq near the Iraq-Kuwait border at a distance of 48 km south of Zubair and a magnitude of 3.5 degrees on the Richter scale,
The statement said that Mrasdna seismic recorded earthquake in the eleventh hour and 54 minutes before noon on Monday in the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border and a magnitude of 3.5 on the Richter scale and located the quake about 70 km from the center of Basra city and 15 km from Umm Qasr and there were no reports of damage. / End
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012 13:10
[Baghdad - where]
Seismic observatories recorded the seismic monitoring network four earthquakes in Iraq on Monday.
He said between the General Authority for meteorological and seismic monitoring of the Ministry of Transport, confirmed that tremors earth stations occurred in at eight and six minutes on the evening of Monday the northwestern city of Mosul, was of 3 degrees on the Richter scale, was the site of the quake is just 22 km northwest city of Tal Afar, 55 km north of East of Sinjar.
The statement added that another earthquake had occurred in the same day in southern Iraq near the Iraq-Kuwait border at a distance of 48 km south of Zubair and a magnitude of 3.5 degrees on the Richter scale,
The statement said that Mrasdna seismic recorded earthquake in the eleventh hour and 54 minutes before noon on Monday in the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border and a magnitude of 3.5 on the Richter scale and located the quake about 70 km from the center of Basra city and 15 km from Umm Qasr and there were no reports of damage. / End
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