- USGS Updated as of Fri Dec 26 04:14:01 UTC
2003
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| DATE-(UTC)-TIME |
Latitude
degrees |
Longitude
degrees |
Depth
km |
Magnitude |
COMMENTS |
| 2003/12/26 03:06:16 |
28.86N |
- 58.32E
|
- 33.0
|
- 5.4
|
- SOUTHEASTERN IRAN
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- 2003/12/26 01:56:56
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29.01N |
58.27E |
33.0 |
6.7 |
- SOUTHEASTERN IRAN
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- Top Official Says Iran Quake Death Toll 'Very
High'
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- By Parisa Hafezi
- 12-26-3
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- TEHRAN (Reuters) - An earthquake
measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale struck southeastern Iran Friday and
the death toll was "very high," a senior Iranian official said.
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- "There is a lot of dead and injured in (the city
of) Bam and all the cooperation has been done to take them out," Mohammad
Ali Karimi, governor of Kerman province, told state media.
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- No official estimates of the number of dead or injured
were available.
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- "There was a lot of damage in (Bam)," Karimi
said, adding that a crisis headquarters had been set up to deal with the
situation.
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- State radio said a lot of people were "buried"
under debris in Bam.
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- Officials said five helicopters had been deployed to
help with rescue efforts.
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- The official IRNA news agency said Red Crescent rescue
teams had been dispatched to the quake-hit area in Kerman province. Quakes
are a regular occurrence in Iran, which is crossed by several major fault
lines in the earth's structure.
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- In June last year, a tremor measuring 6.3 on the Richter
scale hit northern Iran, killing at least 229 people and injuring more
than 1,000.
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- Some 35,000 people were killed in 1990 when earthquakes
of up to 7.7 on the Richter scale hit the northwest of Iran. Tehran was
hit by a quake of about seven on the Richter scale in 1830.
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- The U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information
Center said its measuring equipment indicated Friday's quake had a magnitude
of 6.7.
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- It said the epicenter of the "strong earthquake"
appeared to be about 610 miles southeast of Iran's capital Tehran.
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- A leading Iranian earthquake expert told Reuters in October
that earthquake education in Iran was very poor.
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- "Most people think what God wills, will happen.
This is absolutely wrong. This thinking is poisonous," said Bahram
Akasheh, professor of geophysics at Tehran University.
- © Reuters 2003. All Rights Reserved.
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