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US Bombing on Iraq May Cause Regional Earthquake

The US bombing on Iraq may trigger earthquakes in the Balkan Peninsula, Transcaucasia and the surrounding areas of the Black Sea, the Bulgarian newspaper 24 Hours quoted geologists as saying on Wednesday.


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The US bombing on Iraq may trigger earthquakes in the Balkan Peninsula, Transcaucasia and the surrounding areas of the Black Sea, the Bulgarian newspaper 24 Hours quoted geologists as saying on Wednesday.

When the United States attacks Iraq with bombs, Vrancea in central Romania will suffer slight earthquakes, Romanian geologists said.

Meanwhile, experts of the Russian Institute of Geophysics warned that the US bombing will likely cause serious disasters such as earthquakes, fires and diseases in Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and other surrounding countries of the Black Sea near Iraq.

The experts believe that "man-made earthquakes" caused by large-scale bombing happen much more often than earthquakes caused by normal geological activities.

Geologists call the Black Sea coast the "Black Sea Faultage," where ruinous earthquakes often take place.


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