S.K.G. Al-Behadili¹

¹Iraqi National Monitoring Authority

Abstract:

Iraq is a country subject to seismic activity associated in a belt Zacros-Taurus which is caused by the collision of the Arab plate with the Eurasian plate. Where Arab plate is affected by three types of tectonic boundaries: divergent boundaries, convergent boundaries, seam boundaries. Under these attractions the Arab plate moves north-east, leading to the expansion of the area of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden on one hand and increasing the collision at the mountains of Makran, Zacros and Torus on the other hand. We note this motion from time to time being represented by light, medium and strong earthquakes. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) provides Member States, in accordance with the requirements of the verification regime, the data from seismological monitoring stations, one of the four techniques used by the organization to achieve its goals of making the world free of Nuclear weapons and supporting the scientific and practical side concerned with the monitoring of earthquakes and their effects. In this poster the level of seismic activity witnessed in Iraq between(2017 – 2018) and define mb, Ml to determine Mw which was signal of increasing seismic activity is shown.