National Center of Meteorology | The UAE is safe from earthquakes, and its towers are earthquake-resistant

Arab Weather - The National Center of Meteorology confirmed that the UAE is far from the collision area between the Arab and Eurasian plates with continuous seismic activity in the Zagros and Makran mountains, and that the earthquakes that occurred yesterday and their aftershocks, which have so far reached 102 followers, had little impact on any region. From the regions of the country, stressing that historical and scientific data indicate that the UAE is far from the reach of violent earthquakes.

Khalifa Al Abri, head of the Tsunami Early Warning Center at the National Center of Meteorology, said in exclusive statements to Al Bayan that the buildings of the UAE, thanks to God, are immune and strong from the impact of such tremors, due to the adoption of sustainable building codes with international standards that bear and take into account the highest degrees of earthquakes.

Yesterday, the stations of the UAE National Seismological Network of the National Center of Meteorology recorded 3 earthquakes, with a magnitude of 4.1 to 6.3 - Richter. Friday, local time of the country, followed by another tremor at 23:28 with a magnitude of 4.1-Richter, and then followed by a third strong tremor at 1:32 on Saturday morning, with a magnitude of 6.3, which resulted in more than 102 aftermaths from eight thirty in the morning Friday until eight thirty. From this morning, “Saturday”, it was felt lightly to moderate in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the Northern Emirates, and the intensity was from 3 to 5 on the Mercalli scale.

It is noteworthy that the Mercury scale is a measure to describe the different effects that earthquakes have in different places around the epicenter of the earthquake on humans, facilities and the environment. The scale is twelve degrees, starting with imperceptible vibration and ending with total destruction. These degrees are symbolized by Roman numerals. It was developed by the Italian scientist Mercalli in 1902 and was developed later. It differs from the Richter scale, which measures the amount of energy liberated from an earthquake, which is called earthquake strength.

Khalifa Al-Abri added that the feeling of the strength of the earthquake or not depends on a group of factors such as the strength of the earthquake, its depth, the distance of the geographical location, as well as the location of the person. The same amount of tremor as the awakened person, indicating that the heightened sense of the strength of the earthquake this time was due to the strength of the successive seismic waves and their merging with each other.

Al-Abri explained that the location of the UAE is relatively far from the two seismically active areas in the region: the Zagros Mountains region in southeast Iran and the borders of the Arab and Eurasian plates, in which no earthquake has increased more than 6.5 degrees on the Richter scale, and the second region is the Makran fault in the Arabian Sea, which is far About 600 km away from the Emirates, most of the strong earthquakes that occurred in the two regions were on the other side of the land in Iran and Pakistan, and the impact on them is limited to the UAE.

He pointed out that the center records seismic activity on an almost daily basis, and that most of these earthquakes are imperceptible to the population inside the country, given their weakness and the distance of the country's regions from their centers, pointing out that many countries are exposed to such earthquakes on a regular basis, even if the strength of the earthquake exceeds 6 Degrees - Richter.

Historical studies indicate that a total of 83 earthquakes were monitored, centered in the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, whose strength ranged between (3.1-5.8) degrees according to the Richter scale, with the exception of two of them whose magnitude was (6.4 degrees and 6.3 degrees) that occurred in 1902 and 1949 and were concentrated The same location inside Iran near the Strait of Hormuz (latitude 27°N, longitude 56.4°E). At least half of these earthquakes are centered in the southern Arabian Gulf region around 25 degrees north latitude and 55 degrees east longitude.