Jordan | After the frequent earthquakes, can we in Jordan predict earthquakes and tremors before they occur?

Arab weather - Sinan Khalaf - at least 10 aftershocks until Sunday morning, the earthquake that was recorded yesterday evening, Saturday, to the south of Lake Tiberias, with a strength of 4.6 on the Richter scale, which was felt by the residents of Jordan, and then many questions flowed to us in Arab weather About the extent to which earthquakes and earthquakes can be predicted, their occurrence less and the issuance of an early warning about it, and some questions were received about the timing of the next earthquake!

About these questions, the professor of geophysics and seismology at the University of Jordan, Dr. Najib Abu Karaki, who confirmed in a previous interview with Arab Weather that no one on earth can predict the time and place of the earthquake, stressing that any talk circulating about The exposure of an area to a confirmed and destructive earthquake during a specific period of time is baseless, and is not based on scientific foundations.

The experience of Japan confirms the words of Dr. Abu Karaki.. Despite the scientific progress that Japan has reached, especially in the field of earthquake research, it failed to predict the devastating earthquake that struck it with a magnitude of 9 on the Richter scale on March 11, 2011 and caused massive destruction and Tsunamis killed tens of thousands of people. And it caused one of the largest nuclear disasters in the world (which means that the area was under close seismic monitoring and that it was carefully studied)

And this failure does not stop with Japan only, as the major countries have not yet been able to find any real way to predict earthquakes, such as the United States of America and China.

Regarding the earthquakes and earthquakes that the region witnesses from time to time, Dr. Abu Karaki indicated that they are usual, because the region is considered one of the regions with frequent and moderate seismic activity, and it is not rare for a major earthquake to occur in the region, although it sometimes occurs at intervals of time but it is not possible Predicting its strength or its date in advance with reasonable accuracy. Among these areas are the region of Lake Tiberias, the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea.