Jordan | 419 seismic activities were recorded in Jordan during this period

Arabia Weather - The Jordanian Seismic Observatory recorded 419 seismic activities since the beginning of this year, including 92 local earthquakes throughout the Kingdom and neighboring border regions.

According to a report published by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, the observatory recorded 192 regional earthquakes, most of them in the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions, while the number of distant earthquakes reached 132, concentrated in Turkey, Greece and Iran.

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Areas where earthquakes were concentrated

The report issued by the Jordanian Seismic Observatory in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources for half of the year 2024 stated that local earthquakes were concentrated in the areas of Wadi Araba, the Jordan Valley, Carmel, Tiberias, the adjacent border areas, the Dead Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba and the adjacent southern border areas, and the Sarhan and Zarqa Valleys.

The report indicated that seismic monitoring devices recorded 13 earthquakes in Wadi Araba, and 39 earthquakes in the Jordan Valley , Carmel, Tiberias, and the adjacent border areas, while 24 earthquakes were recorded in the Dead Sea and 14 earthquakes in the Gulf of Aqaba and the adjacent southern border areas, while the two areas of the Sarhan Falq were recorded. And Zarqa had one earthquake.

The statement issued by the Ministry of Energy confirmed that the national network of earthquake monitoring stations in Jordan includes two types of monitoring stations. The first type is the network of weak motion (telemetric) stations, which consists of 23 stations covering the entire area of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, including 20 Jordanian stations and two stations, one of which belongs to the German Institute GFZ and the other to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Organization (CTBTO), and all of them are connected to the Jordanian network.

The second type is the strong movement monitoring stations, which number 19 stations distributed among the main cities and dams in the Kingdom, in order to record the ground acceleration necessary for engineering designs that are resistant to earthquakes. The observatory receives seismic information around the clock from all seismic monitoring stations spread throughout the Kingdom to the center.

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Sources:

Roya channel