Earthquake is the sudden movement within the earth’s crust. The major causes of earthquakes are tectonic movement, volcanic activity, dislocation of the earth’s crust, adjustment in inner rock beds, and pressure of gases in the interior. I think, no strong evidence can be relate between climate change and earthquakes.

Earthquake is the sudden movement within the earth’s crust. The major causes of earthquakes are tectonic movement, volcanic activity, dislocation of the earth’s crust, adjustment in inner rock beds, and pressure of gases in the interior. I think, no strong evidence can be relate between climate change and earthquakes.

Geological disasters might influence climate, for instance when volcanic debris blots out the sun. But climate cannot disrupt geology. Right?

There is growing evidence to incriminate changing climate in the planet’s most destructive geological events.

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No way climate change can create earthquakes!

However, you have been extracting oil and gas from under the ground for awhile. Have you been putting any material to replace the open spaces created by this extraction? Probably not.

Therefore, you should be expecting ground adjustments (earthquakes) even if you have never had any in the region.

good answer given by Dr Hassan

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I agree with Mr. Michael Issigonis. Earthquakes can occur due to there is no replacement for oil inside earth, so it must be inject water instead of oil.

Iraq is in a geologic compresion zone where layers of stone must move under other layers of stone and nearby mountains to the East. These are mostly deep underground processes, which might reach the surface or be mitigated by deep petroleum deposits or salt water. The region has had earth quakes in the past, maybe not often enough or severe enough to be remembered. Climate change on the surface is probably not a cause of recent earth quakes 23 and 46 Km deep, but could affect shallower earth quakes 8 and 10 Km deep. All of these were in mountain building reagions where presumably the mountains are getting higher.

See the paper in the attached link. It claims that seismic activity has existed in Iraq, although not typically severe ones. The paper claims that 90.95% of quakes have had magnitude 4 to to 5.4 mb, and only 6.03% greater than 5.4 mb, from 1900 to 1988. The paper includes maps to show seismic activity in the period mentioned above, and a separate map for events from ancient history to 1900.

I don't think it's necessary to attribute these to climate change.

My clear cut opinion is that this a warning from ALLAH if it is of mild scale and if of severe scale it is a temporary punishment so that people may reflect back. What ever science explains is secondary justifications. We all should sake forgiveness from ALMIGHTY ALLAH for all HIS disobedience shown by us.

No idea indeed. It is supposed that Iraq is out of the zone of Earthquake. Thanks for sharing your question.

I think it related with excessive oil extraction.

"A 2009 meeting at University College London concluded that, since climate change in the past has probably increased some ‘geological hazards’;

“Anthropogenic climate change therefore has the potential to alter the risk of geological and geomorphological hazards through the twenty-first century and beyond. Such changes in risk have not yet been systematically assessed.” " (link)

https://www.carbonbrief.org/can-climate-change-cause-earthquakes-we-look-at-the-science-and-the-spin

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The subject of the time and the earthquake occurred in the Iraqi-Iranian border, which is a seismic zone. It is known that 65 earthquakes took place all over the globe last night, certainly due to global warming and pollution.

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I do understand the climate as in atmospheric changes have very little to do with earth does ...

May be this is the happening of pangaea movement and it doesn't matter any life form exists or not

Thanks for the question I do not think so

A nice question

I guess he might have a reason

This is because of the empty oil and gas reservoirs, they were full but now empty and this cause such sudden changes and collapses, and appears as earthquakes.

I am agree with Dr. TAlib

every think is connected but not directly, see this web site :- https://earthquaketrack.com/p/iraq/recent

I just saw some answers regarding the late 7.3 earthquake, eastern Iraq,

and was surprised to see that some people relate this event to oil

production. It is important to know that there is no major oil production

from central eastern Iraq. The depth of the event is about 20Km, while

oil is being extracted from traps shallower than 5km. Usually formation

water replace oil naturally during production.

There is some kind of relationship between tectonic and climate, but I

am not quite sure if there is such connection with climate change.

The is event is expected but it is not related to dextral transpression of

Zagros, but related to dextral movement of the Gaa'ra -Samarra- Halabja

Fault (formally named Amij – Samarra - Halabja Fault).