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Disaster risk reduction

Earthquakes and preparedness

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3
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Planned

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Before you begin The Kurdish Cooperation Organization is a federation of communities that learn from one another. It is not a university, claims no public authority and serves no government, party or faith body.Safety

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  1. Department of Water Resources Engineering, College of Engineering, Salahaddin University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, Zhian Ahmed, Jehan Suleimany (2025). The Drought Hazard and Drought Risk Indices for Mandawa Basins in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Sulaimani Journal for Engineering Sciences. DOI 10.17656/sjes.102006
  2. Dass Foundation for Research and Development (2026). Application of Markov Chain Modeling for Assessing Rainfall Dynamics and Drought Probability in the Kurdistan Region (2026–2041). Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19581174
  3. Haidar Khezri (2017). Kurdistan earthquake: politics creates roadblocks to relief. The Conversation Media Group Ltd. DOI 10.64628/aai.647tdjtae
  4. David Romano (2020). Sub-state actors and foreign policy risk-taking: The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq. Kurdish Studies. DOI 10.33182/ks.v8i2.533
  5. Shevan J. Jirjees, Imaddadin O. Hassan, Shwan O. Seeyan (2022). Hydrometeorological Data Analysis and Drought Indices of Rawandoz Area, Iraqi-Kurdistan Region. ZANCO JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES. DOI 10.21271/zjpas.34.6.17

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01About this course

Part of Disaster risk reduction. Reducing harm before disaster strikes. Earthquakes such as Kermanshah in 2017 and Kahramanmaraş in 2023 hit Kurdish areas.

Levels
Foundations
Wave
Wave 3
Discipline
Disaster risk reduction

02What happens next

Its outline is written first, then reviewed by the responsible A group of practitioners of one field who work together on courses, standards and toolkits; the charter calls it a Standards area.. Teaching starts only after review.

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This course only. It is not an accredited qualification, a degree or a language certificate.
Validity
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Withdrawal
Withdrawn if obtained by misrepresentation.
Not an endorsement
Completion does not mean KCO endorses you, your work or your views.
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03Your progress

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04Who teaches it

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05Further reading

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  1. The Drought Hazard and Drought Risk Indices for Mandawa Basins in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region

    Department of Water Resources Engineering, College of Engineering, Salahaddin University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, Zhian Ahmed, Jehan Suleimany · 2025 · Sulaimani Journal for Engineering Sciences

    ArticleCrossref

  2. Application of Markov Chain Modeling for Assessing Rainfall Dynamics and Drought Probability in the Kurdistan Region (2026–2041)

    Dass Foundation for Research and Development · 2026 · Zenodo

    ArticleDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  3. Kurdistan earthquake: politics creates roadblocks to relief

    Haidar Khezri · 2017 · The Conversation Media Group Ltd

    PreprintCrossrefOpenAIRE

  4. Sub-state actors and foreign policy risk-taking: The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq

    David Romano · 2020 · Kurdish Studies

    ArticleCrossref

  5. Hydrometeorological Data Analysis and Drought Indices of Rawandoz Area, Iraqi-Kurdistan Region

    Shevan J. Jirjees, Imaddadin O. Hassan, Shwan O. Seeyan · 2022 · ZANCO JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES

    ArticleCrossrefDOAJOpen access

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DataCite (CC0 1.0 (DataCite metadata)), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23; Zenodo (Metadata CC0 1.0; each record under its own licence), 2026-10-23.

06Record

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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Earthquakes and preparedness. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/earthquakes-and-preparedness/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Earthquakes and Preparedness.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/earthquakes-and-preparedness/.

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	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Earthquakes and preparedness},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/earthquakes-and-preparedness/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/earthquakes-and-preparedness/},
}

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