The impact of Lake Urmia’s drying on the occurrence of recent earthquakes
Mehdi Zare, a faculty member of the Seismological Research Institute, stated that the depletion of groundwater and the drying of the lake have contributed to triggering the recent earthquakes in Lake Urmia and the occurrence of six earthquakes with magnitudes between 5.5 and 6 from September 2022 to April 2023 in the Khoy region.