Week 3 - Seismic Waves and Bahrain

 After learning about earthquakes and the production of seismic waves from an earthquake, I am now clearly able to understand the process of what an earthquake causes. Furthermore, after identifying the seismic waves map to see where seismic activity occurs and if it's near my country, Bahrain, I noticed that there is a surplus of seismic activity near the Arabian convergent plate. The seismic waves are located near southern Iran, northern and central Iran , and areas near Pakistan. However, these earthquakes are light and barely felt due to its low magnitude.

Due to the earthquakes low magnitude there is not much of a mitigation system or program. Moreover, Bahrain is located directly across the Persian gulf from the seismic waves, therefore, making the earthquakes effects less threatening.

In essence, although Bahrain doe not see much seismic activity, directly across the Persian Gulf there are more frequent earthquakes. However, Bahrain receives no damage from the earthquakes that occur.Developing a seismic source model for the Arabian Plate | SpringerLink 

Resources:

http://ds.iris.edu/seismon/eventlist/index.phtml?region=Central_Asia&lon=56.06&lat=27.63

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12517-018-3797-7

Comments

  1. rsafaSeptember 9, 2022 at 7:41 PM

    Dear Logan, thank you for sharing us this information. I used to live in Kuwait, it's near by Bahrain . and yes I remembered how we used to feel light earthquakes came from Iran. and every time came from the same place Iran. and every time the earthquakes caused a lot of damages in Iran. However. we only felt the waves that is very light

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  2. Greece!September 11, 2022 at 10:07 PM

    Hi Logan, It is interesting to see the range that different plates have on different locations. In Bahrain's specific situation, it appears that the plates that this country is most near, don't really have much of an effect on the seismic activity and earthquakes. In reading the above comment it seems that people who live near these plates don't experience bad seismic activity which I'm sure takes a little bit of stress of their daily lives and the architects who design these cities. It would be interesting to compare the architecture of a place that dosen't experience much seismic activity to a place that does such as San Francisco.

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