SEISMIC ACTIVITY IN IRAQ (ZAGROS EARTHQUAKE) A REVIEW STUDY

Earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes and landslides are among the most important phenomena affecting human life. They occur suddenly without warning. Some of them are light, while others are destructive threaten the lives of people. Recently there has been increasing activity in the zealous strip in the Iran-Zagros earthquake line, in which Iraq is located. A magnitude 7.3 earthquake has occurred in the northern border region of Iran-Iraq centered about 350 kilometers north of Baghdad at a depth of 33.9 km in last Nov (http://www.iris.edu/hq/retm). In general the prediction of earthquakes takes three alliances. In the first one, can predict the location of the earthquake over-all, as expect it in a large area such as the northern or north-eastern border in 10 to 20 years. In the second one it is not predictable not only in Iraq but also in the developed world, because it depends on the nature of the underground breakage and the amount of energy emitted, the third alliance is time and this is also not available. Therefore developed countries use seismic engineering, Seismic insurance in order to reduce the losses. This paper comes to shed light on what is happening in Iraq from natural disasters not seen before. To determine the causes of occurrence and recurrence in the near and long term