TEHRAN - An overall of 706 earthquakes have actually been tape-recorded throughout the country over the past calendar month that ended on February 19, according to the Seismological networks of the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Tehran.Of the overall quakes, 16 had a magnitude of more than 4 on the Richter scale, the biggest of which took place on January 28 with a magnitude of 5.9 in the northwestern city of Khoy, ISNA reported.Statistically, 614 earthquakes with magnitudes smaller than 3, 76 earthquakes with magnitudes in between 3 and 4, 15 earthquakes with magnitudes between 4 and 5, and 1 earthquake with magnitudes in between 5 and 6 have actually taken place in the country.Among the provinces of the country, West Azarbaijan with 324 earthquakes, Khorasan Razavi, and South Khorasan with 65 and 45 earthquakes, respectively, taped the greatest number of earthquakes in the country.Meanwhile, seven earthquakes were also tape-recorded in Tehran province, the biggest of which was near Firouzkouh with a magnitude of 3.3 on the Richter scale.The Iranian plateau lies in a really seismically active region of the world and is known not only for its significant catastrophic earthquakes but likewise for the catastrophes relating to natural threats, specifically earthquakes.Iran has entered a decade of earthquakes given that the [Iranian calendar] year 1396 (March 2017- March 2018), as the Iranian plateau is shrinking by 30 millimeters per year, Mehdi Zare, teacher of engineering seismology at the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES), has said.About 2 percent of the earthquakes in the world occur in Iran but more than 6% of the victims of the world earthquakes throughout the 20th century are reported from Iranian earthquakes.

This reveals the high level of vulnerability in Iran, according to Zare.Tehran is likewise one of the most harmful metropolitan areas on the planet in regards to the threat of different natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, subsidence, drought, landslide, fire following an earthquake, etc.On the other hand, Tehran has an over 8,300,000 nighttime population with a mix of old non-resistant structures as well as modern skyscrapers that impact the vulnerability of this city.MG