coffindodger

Is it just a matter of time until Dubai is hot by a major quake!!!

Aftershocks of an earthquake shook the northern emirates early on Friday, sending many residents out of their houses.
Tremors were felt in Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah, Ajman and Sharjah as a 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of southeastern Iran.
According to the US geological survey, the epicenter is 10 km under the Arabian Sea between Iran and Fujairah and is located just 80 km away from Fujairah and around 175 km from Dubai.

http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Envir.../10311724.html

Roadking

That wasn't a quake, it was the price of apartments hitting the floor!

Hello.Kitty

I wonder... if the super-high-rise blocks are quake-proof, or if that was value engineered out at an early stage.


Sorry, not taking bets.

Shadya

And I thought it was Lionheart being exceptionally clever.

coffindodger

Just thinking (yes i know thats dangerous ) but if a quake was to hit sk z rd
i hate to think of what would happen.

klaus3974

Hahaha... the floor? Not quite there yet. I was quoted 200K for a large 3 bed in the marina last week, this week the same apartment was 170K... I am hoping to get it for far less.

shiva

yes it is just a matter of time. when not if

"Dibba Fault is an active fault which means that it had a displacement or a seismic activity during the geologically recent period. It is one of the two faults that run through the UAE, enters land near the southern borders of Oman, coming from the north and runs southward to the centre of the Arabian Peninsula. Gulf News reported that people in Dibba have felt at least 150 tremors during 2003 and 2004, which indicates that there is a major earthquake waiting to happen in the area.[1] Dibba also felt the 2005 Qeshm earthquake. The Mesozoic and the Cenozoic accretionary wedge is truncated on the western side by the right lateral fault, the Zendan Fault - Oman Line. West of the transform are the Zagros Mountains of southern Iran, the Musandam peninsula and the Oman Mountains, and the Arabian platform and the Dibba Fault. The Dibba Fault separates the ophiolites in the Oman Mountains from the Mesozoic carbonates in the Musandam Peninsula.[5]

On March 31, 2009, Gulfnews reported that the UAE's National Centre of Metrology and Seismology (NCMS)[2] recorded two earth tremors measuring magnitude of 2.9 and 3.5 on the Richter scale shook the Gulf of Aden and north of Dibba at 6.21am and 9.35am. The tremors were lightly felt in some areas of the northern emirates.[6]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibba

shiva

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/...east/gshap.php

Eva

Lovin the map...tft
Didn't know there was a Herodotus Lake...cool.