Yalda_So @Yalda_so 3 min. BREAKING NEWS : an #earthquake just hit some Kurdish cities in #Iraq including #Kirkuk #Erbil #Duhok #Slimani & #Halabja Apparently, it has been felt also in #Kurdistan region of #Iran : #Piranshahr, #Mahabad & even #Sanandaj #TwitterKurds
Present updated toll (which will almost surely increase the following hours) - 9 FATALITIES and 81 INJURED PEOPLE - Update 20:21 UTC: View image on Twitter Jascha Polet @CPPGeophysics Shallow thrust faulting M7.3 quake near Zagros mountains today occurred in area with significant historical seismicity, but few events of this size Update 20:20 UTC: 1h Stephen Hicks ✔@seismo_steve Earthquake focal mechanism ("beach ball") for M7.2 Iran-Iraq border earthquake confirms reverse faulting in the Zagros fold and thrust belt, with the rupture's fault plane lying parallel to the Arabia-Eurasia plate boundary pic.twitter.com/S10C9rDdeJ Possible related structure ((Zimnako-Khushk-Bamo anticline). pic.twitter.com/hFgirGyig9 8:12 PM - Nov 12, 2017
Se não há malta a averiguar os danos na barragem de Mosul, devia haver. Em estruturas enfraquecidas a distância não protege assim tanto.
Present updated toll (which will almost surely increase the following hours) - 17 FATALITIES and 251 INJURED PEOPLE - Update 21:03 UTC: Dr. James Daniell, damage/loss expert at CEDIM Karlsruhe, Germany, has calculated that the expected median damage will be 200 million $. His calculations are resulting in a median of 100 fatalities
Update 21:21 UTC: another picture of the severe damage Update 21:17 UTC: these people (in Iran) have wisely decided to spend the night in a tent because of the fear for aftershocks
Present updated toll (which will almost surely increase the following hours) - 45 FATALITIES and 816 INJURED PEOPLE
Present updated toll (which will almost surely increase the following hours) - 85 FATALITIES and 1216 INJURED PEOPLE
Present updated toll (which will almost surely increase the following hours) - 115 FATALITIES and 1216 INJURED PEOPLE Update 23:03 UTC: Iranian media are now reporting 100 fatalities at 2 AM in the morning local time (61 people in Sar-e-Pol-e Zahab, 30 in Kermanshah and 9 in the Shirin Palace)
Present updated toll (which will almost surely increase the following hours) - 126 FATALITIES and 1094 INJURED PEOPLE
Present updated toll (which will almost surely increase the following hours) - 355 FATALITIES and 6051 INJURED PEOPLE
Present updated toll (which will almost surely increase the following hours) - 387 FATALITIES and 6051 INJURED PEOPLE Update 11:41 UTC: Mark Allen : Cross-section gives an idea of Zagros structure - adapted from Dezful region of Iran to SE. Red dot represents the recent Iraq/Iran #earthquake hypocenter
Present updated toll (which will almost surely increase the following hours) - 410 FATALITIES and 7156 INJURED PEOPLE - Update 13:36 UTC: Middle East tectonics and earthquakes result from the interaction of the Eurasia, Arabia, India, and Africa Plates. This regional tectonics map shows plate motions with respect to the Eurasian Plate. The location of the earthquake is shown by the red star.
