Qatar seismic station

 It is  a new  place " Qatar Network for Seismic Observation" .It detected an earthquake very far from Doha ."The 6.7 magnitude earthquake occurred 9,771km from Doha at a depth of 137km"
It has powerful devices .I hope that it will not detect earthquakes around here .A year ago or more there were two harmless earthquakes in Doha which caused much panic . I personally did not notice anything but my husband was asked to leave the tower building .

Bima sinkhole and Dahl Al -Hamam

Bima sinkhole, a photo by AdRikTa on Flickr.

some sinkholes can be found in the area of Arabian Gulf -the largest and the most famous one is perhaps in Oman -Qatar has some smaller ones
I was so much shocked to learn that in the park of Dahl el Hamam there is a sinkhole - now closed for visitors but some people managed to see it before - it is quite big -I am frightened !
Actually dahl in Arabic means  sinkhole  - they never wanted to keep it in secret ! Just we expats are ignorant !

caves in Qatar

Are there caves in Qatar ?
Look at this video where three young men are exploring one bat cave around here .