Deadly Earthquake Strikes Southeast Iran

stevedeshazer

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Fri Dec-26-03 04:04 AM
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Deadly Earthquake Strikes Southeast Iran

Earthquake Strikes Historic Iranian City of Bam; Officials Say Many People Have Died

TEHRAN, Iran Dec. 26 — A severe earthquake devastated the historic city of Bam in southeast Iran on Friday, and officials said many people were killed.

Hasan Khoshrou, a legislator for Kerman province where the quake occurred, said he had been told the devastation in the city of 80,000 people was "beyond imagination."

"No death toll is available, but it looks to be very, very high," Khoshrou said.

Iranian television said the magnitude 6.3 quake leveled about 60 percent of the houses in Bam, 630 miles southeast of the capital, killing many people as they slept. Authorities put out a call for blood donations.

source: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031226_144.html

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Fri Dec-26-03 04:11 AM
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1. There have been a lot of earthquakes lately

There was one in California about a week ago I remember. Also wasn't there one in Central America recently. Is this normal or just a surge of seismic(sp?) activity?

Has any agencies such as the Red Cross started to help? I think it would be good for Iran-America relations if we gave them food and/or medical supplies.

I went over to free republic to see what they have been saying about the earthquake. As I suspected they said a lot of anti-islam racist crap. :grr:

With the whole mad cow scare I am just out of it tonight.

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Fri Dec-26-03 04:16 AM
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2. Dupe... locking

Please continue discussion about the Iran Earthquake within the earliest LBN thread on the topic:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=286084

Thanks!

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