Dr. Farah Saleh: Talking about the collapse of the Renaissance Dam is unscientific
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Geological expert, D. Farah Saleh, the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is capable of resisting any repercussions resulting from earthquakes in Ethiopias Renaissance Dam region. In a statement to Citizens, he denied talk of the possible collapse of the Renaissance Dam and said, This is unscientific.
Social media platforms conveyed some opinions that the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam was likely, after the Derna coastal city of Libya was hit by Storm Daniel and compared it to what could happen if the Renaissance dam collapsed.
Saleh told Citizens that this talk is completely unscientific because Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan tectonically form part of the Arab Nobians Shield which is part of the African anchor African craton and anchors are fixed parts of the continent or plate. Anchoring means fortitude.
The Egyptian geologist and water expert was Dr. Abbas Sharqi is at risk of repeating the Derna scenario in the Renaissance Dam, where in a Facebook post he linked the collapse of the dams in Libya to catastrophic flooding that has killed thousands of people and massive destruction of infrastructure, to the risk that the tragedy will recur in Ethiopias already controversial mega-water project between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia.
Sharqi explained in a statement to France24 that the Renaissance Dam is subject to collapse mainly for geological reasons. The increase in the absorption capacity was a political factor and there were no precise scientific studies, although Ethiopia is from an active seismic area located in the African groove region and is also a volcanic zone, which is then made up of volcanic basalt rocks that decompose with rainwater, and which fall in heavy quantities during the summer, especially in August and into September. In addition, there are significant declines, as the dam is about 500 metres above sea level, while the lakes are the highest in high-risk declines in the event of flooding.
But Dr. Farah Saleh, Professor at the Nilane University School of Oil, said that the area was not prone to strong earthquakes occurring on the extension of collision or orogen ranges, e.g. Zagros, Toros, desert alps in Algeria, Morocco, or caps transformative ranges. and asserts that seismology may be exposed to weak earthquakes or earthquakes of up to 6 degrees by Richters balance resulting from thermal disturbance in the mantle, vaulting, crustal descent or regeneration. Adding (then, even if there are earthquakes, even if they exceed these amounts, the dams are constructed so that they resist these amounts of vibration.)
