An earthquake attracted attention in southern Iraq two days ago

2017-08-20 2017-08-20T15:15:08Z
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Weather of Arabia - On Friday, August 18, regions of Nasiriyah Governorate, southern Iraq, witnessed an earthquake that was relatively strong, on a scale of 4.7 on the Richter scale, and at a depth of 30 km below the surface of the earth. Add your news here

It was followed by several aftershocks in that area near the Al-Rifai area and Sukkar Castle, and this earthquake, which is not considered the first to occur in southern Iraq, caused damage to buildings and cracks, according to what was reported by the media.

Some citizens called for studying the recurrence of earthquakes in that spot by those concerned

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.
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