Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Erbil Governorate suffers from the hazards of earthquakes, which arehazards caused due to tectonic activity of the Alpine Zone along the northern andnortheastern boundaries of Iraq, which represents areas of collision betweenArabian and Eurasian Plates This study depends on the seismic data of ErbilGovernorate that are recorded in the General Faculty of Weather Forecasting andSeismic for the period (1971– 2011). The epicenters were plotted and the seismicmaps of the area were constructed using GIS techniques. Depending on theintensity of the earthquakes, the seismic hazards in Erbil Governorate wereclassified into three levels of hazards, these are: Areas of Low Hazards; forming(64.3%), Areas of Medium Hazards; forming(31. 2%) and Areas of HighHazards; forming (1.9%) from the total coverage area, which is (14505) Km2.
Language: Arabic
Subfield: Geophysics
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2904185649