Iraq Earthquakes ~ Three earthquakes hit Baghdad and Sulaymaniyah

30/11/2011

Three earthquakes hit Baghdad and Sulaymaniyah

Forecast: cold wave continued for the next five days

Baghdad-morning

Two earthquakes hit the city of Baghdad on Wednesday, with a third medium size Temblor in Sulaymaniyah governorate, at the time predicted a continued cold wave weather in parts of the country for the next five days.

And the Director of the seismic monitoring body to Abdul Khaliq told the press that "earthquakes rocked Baghdad on Friday, the first was strongly 2.9 on the Richter scale, hit the area of aqar QUF Northwest of Baghdad, and the second strongly 3.5 degrees and hit the North of the capital." "Abdel Khaliq seismological Commission recorded during the last week of two sharp jolts weak in Anbar province, occurred between the towns of Fallujah and Ramadi".

And the meteorological and seismological announced in October last year that an earthquake in Wasit governorate in southern Baghdad strongly 3.5 on the Richter scale.

In the meantime, the Director of the Meteorological Department in the region of Kurdistan Jalal Wahab Hassan "an earthquake of 6.4 degrees on the Richter scale hit a region of Sulaymaniyah governorate".

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He told the press that "earthquake rezgari district Chamchamal, did not result in any casualties or damage".

On the other hand, the forecasting section at Baghdad International Airport the current cold wave continued for the next five days.

The body said in a statement, "Sabah" copy: "the continuation of the country affected by the cold and dry air mass associated with prolonged high air based in Central Europe, led to 485,000 with temperatures across the country to the general rates without several degrees."

The minimum temperature below zero was recorded in multiple places Centennial Central and Northern regions, due to the cold wave will continue for the next five days.

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