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Biggest earthquake has struck south-east Iran. 40 people killed so far.



Papa Lazarou

Papa Lazarou

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Jul 7, 2003
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Worthing
Thought this deserved a thread...
 




Uncle C

Uncle C

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Jul 6, 2004
11,683
Bishops Stortford
Is that the biggest in the World ever?
 




Papa Lazarou

Papa Lazarou

Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Jul 7, 2003
18,871
Worthing
Not sure [MENTION=15291]Steve2244[/MENTION] knows more.
 






Surrey Seagull

Surrey Seagull

New member
Jul 24, 2007
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Spitting distance from Croydon, let me check...yup
7.3 according to the BBC, quite a large quake.
 




M

Muzzy

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Jan 25, 2011
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Lewes
According to reports there are no reported loss of lives, yet!
 




G

GingerBeerMan

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Dec 29, 2011
8,025
In USA/Japan/Australia/New Zealand this is front page, can't-talk-about-anything-else news. In Iran and it's top story for one day at max
 


RexCathedra

RexCathedra

Aurea Mediocritas
Jan 14, 2005
3,499
Vacationland
it's up there... That casualty figure will rise. The 2003 Bam earthquake killed 20,000 or so,
 


Leighgull

Leighgull

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Dec 27, 2012
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Hold on...wasn't Dingodan posting something about the CIA and Earthquake weapons recently...or was it Israel.

Either way, I expect one of the tin foil hat brigade will be along shortly.
 




seagull_special

seagull_special

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Jun 9, 2008
2,931
Abu Dhabi
Very close, just across the sea. 1 hour flight away! although Iran is a massive country!
 




RexCathedra

RexCathedra

Aurea Mediocritas
Jan 14, 2005
3,499
Vacationland
Vy. seismically active area. The Iranians briefly discussed moving their capital to Isfahan at one polnt a decade ago, Brasilia-style, since Teheran sits right on top of the same fault that leveled Bam

7.8 is fairly high, though the real monsters run in the 8-5 9.0 range. The Richter scale is logarithmic, so an increase of a whole number -- say from 6.8 to 7.8 -- is an increase of x10 in energy released.
 








Perfidious Albion

Perfidious Albion

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Oct 25, 2011
6,035
At the end of my tether
Rural area, casualties not yet assessed . This from the Iran News Service , Press TV

"Thirty-four people have been killed and scores injured in southwestern Pakistan after a powerful earthquake hit Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, near the Pakistani border.

The major tremor measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale hit a sparsely populated rural area between the Iranian provincial cities of Saravan and Khash at a depth of 95 kilometers at 3:14 p.m. local time (1044 GMT) on Tuesday."
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There is at least one gone in Iran too. Humanity is universal , tragedy is tragedy whether in Iran or Boston........
 










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