INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN - A total of 601 earthquakes have been recorded across the country over the past calendar month that ended on June 21, according to
the Seismological networks of the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Tehran.Of the total quakes, 10 had a magnitude of more than 4
on the Richter scale, the largest of which occurred on May 22 and June 21 with a magnitude of 4.9 in the northwestern and southern provinces
of East Azarbaijan and Hormozgan, respectively, IRNA reported.Statistically, 552 earthquakes with magnitudes smaller than 3; 39 earthquakes
with magnitudes between 3 and 4, and 10 earthquakes with magnitudes between 4 and 5 have occurred in the country.Among the provinces of the
country, West Azarbaijan with 82 earthquakes, and Khorasan Razavi and South Khorasan with 70 and 47 earthquakes, respectively, recorded the
highest number of earthquakes in the country.Meanwhile, nine earthquakes were also recorded in Tehran province, the largest of which
occurred in Arjmand region with a magnitude of 2.3 on the Richter scale.A total of 7,000 earthquakes have been recorded across the country
over the past calendar year, which ended on March 20.Of the total quakes, 185 were more than 4 on the Richter scale, the largest of which
occurred on June 1, 2022, with a magnitude of 6.1 in the southern province of Hormozgan.Statistically, at least two earthquakes with a
magnitude of more than 5 have occurred monthly in the country.The northwestern province of West Azarbaijan, the northeastern province of
Khorasan Razavi, and the southeastern province of Kerman, registered the most earthquakes with 838, 813, and 740 earthquakes
respectively.The northcentral provinces of Qazvin, Zanjan, and Alborz recorded the least earthquakes with 21, 9, and 2 earthquakes
respectively.The southern province of Hormozgan, the southeastern province of Kerman, and the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan
registered respectively the highest number of earthquakes with a magnitude of more than 4 on the Richter scale.The Iranian plateau is
located in a very seismically active region of the world and is known not only for its major catastrophic earthquakes but also for the
disasters relating to natural hazards, especially earthquakes.About 2 percent of the earthquakes in the world occur in Iran but more than 6%
of the victims of the world earthquakes during the 20th century are reported from Iranian earthquakes
This shows the high level of vulnerability in Iran, according to Mehdi Zare, a professor of engineering seismology.Iran has entered a decade
of earthquakes since the [Iranian calendar] year 1396 (March 2017- March 2018), as the Iranian plateau is shrinking by 30 millimeters per
year, Mehdi Zare, professor of engineering seismology at the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES), has
said.The Strait of Hormuz region in the south of Iran has the highest seismic activity in the region and its formation is related to the
hazardous metropolises in the world in terms of the risk 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 mixture of old
