{"id":32177,"date":"2024-09-08T04:13:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T01:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=32177"},"modified":"2024-09-08T04:13:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T01:13:43","slug":"iraq-confirms-meteor-burnt-in-its-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/08\/iraq-confirms-meteor-burnt-in-its-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Confirms Meteor Burnt in its Atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Iraqi Meteorological Authority revealed today (Saturday) the truth about the fall of a meteor in Iraqi territory, stating that the light seen yesterday (Friday) was due to a meteor burning in the atmosphere. In a press release, reported by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), the authority mentioned that &#8220;the General Authority for Meteorology and Seismology is monitoring what is being circulated on social media regarding the fall of a meteor in Iraq, which has caused confusion among citizens.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0 \u00a0Salman Saddam Al-Bahadly, head of the Seismology Department, clarified, &#8220;After receiving several inquiries about the light seen in Syria, Turkey, and Iraq, with some believing it was caused by earthquake lightning, the light was actually due to a meteor burning in the atmosphere.&#8221; He emphasized that there is no connection between earthquakes and burning meteors, reassuring that &#8220;there is nothing to worry about.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 The Iraqi Meteorological Authority revealed today (Saturday) the truth about the fall of a meteor in Iraqi territory, stating that the light seen yesterday (Friday) was due to a meteor burning in the atmosphere. In a press release, reported by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), the authority mentioned that &#8220;the General &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32184,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32177\/revisions\/32184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}