استخدام التقنيات الحديثة لتحليل الهزات الأرضية في الحدود العراقية الإيرانية - جنوب شرق حلبجة 2017 – 2018

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The study deals with the use of modern techniques in analyzing the earthquake that struck the Iraqi-Iranian border southeast of Halabja, using GIS 10.4 and Geotool to analyze seismic waves.

The study hypothesis was developed according to the research problem and through the adoption of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a research tool in the establishment of databases that helped facilitate the prediction and evaluation of the effects of the earthquakes leading to better decisions on minimizing adverse impacts on areas affected by earthquakes.

Northern Iraq has been hit by many earthquakes in recent times, where the observatories of the General Authority for Meteorology recorded more than 600 tremors in the north-eastern region of the country, and the nature of the rocks of the border region between Iraq and Iran on the one hand and Iraq and Turkey on the other hand that Iraq falls within the activity area Seismic also referred to in many international reports.

Because the Arab plate is thinner than the Iranian one, this has made the effects of the earthquakes clear and significantly affecting the countries in the north and northeast of Iraq.

In this study, four events were analyzed and detailed and the results were given about the event such as location, time, size and spectrum analysis as follows: 1- Analysis of the earthquake that occurred on 12/11/2017 in Sulaymaniyah province / southeast of Halabja where it measured 5.8 on the Richter scale.2- Analysis of the earthquake that occurred on 1/1/2018 at the Iraqi-Iranian border where 25 km southeast of Mandali / Diyala district and measured 5.5 on the Richter scale and then followed by 38 aftershocks until twelve o'clock the next day according to our seismic observatories.3- Analysis of the earthquake that occurred on 11/1/2018 in the province of Baghdad has reached a magnitude of 4.5 on the Richter scale.4- Analysis of the earthquake that occurred on 12 1 2018 in Baghdad province and the magnitude of 4.1 on the Richter scale.

The research also includes a geological and topographic study of the northern border region with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

It seems through wave analysis by specialists in the Iraqi National Data Center, and through the data received, it is a natural earthquake not caused by any human action.