Earthquake Strikes Iran, U.S. Says

AP ^ | Dec 25, 2003

[optimistically_conservative]

3 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - An earthquake has struck southeastern Iran near the city of Bam, the U.S. Geological Survey (news - web sites) said Thursday.

There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The earthquake hit at 5:27 a.m. local time Friday — or 8:57 p.m. Thursday, Eastern Standard Time.

The USGS (news - web sites) reported a preliminary magnitude of 6.7, high enough to cause severe damage.

There have been similar earthquakes in this area that have caused damage, the USGS said.

[freedom44]

Earthquakes strike killing good people of Iran, when will earthquake strike and kill off the Islamist, Facist Mullah pigs?

[Paul Atreides]

An earthquake has struck southeastern Iran...

...near the city of Bam!

[Dog Gone]

It could have been worse. It might have hit the town of Rubble.

[Paul Atreides]

when will earthquake strike and kill off the Islamist, Facist Mullah pigs?

Hey now! Tone that down; there are still a few good people left in Follywood. ;-)

[NYC GOP Chick]

Earthquake Strikes Iran, U.S. Says

wow. I, for one, did not realize that we're that powerful. I wonder if we can convince them that it's a message from allah, telling them to give up the nuke program and that the mullahs should surrender immediately...

[nuconvert]

[No Blue States]

"The earthquake hit at 5:27 a.m. local time Friday —"

For a few seconds some Iranian Mullahs thought the sum of all their fears had materialized at the hand of Israel.

Hopefully only they and their kind were injured.

[nuconvert]

Magnitude 5.4 - SOUTHEASTERN IRAN
2003 December 26 03:06:16 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

A moderate earthquake occurred at 03:06:16 (UTC) on Friday, December 26, 2003. The magnitude 5.4 event has been located in SOUTHEASTERN IRAN. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)


Magnitude 5.4
Date-Time Friday, December 26, 2003 at 03:06:16 (UTC)
= Coordinated Universal Time
Friday, December 26, 2003 at 6:36:16 AM
= local time at epicenter

Location 28.861°N, 58.322°E
Depth 33 km (21 miles) set by location program
Region SOUTHEASTERN IRAN
Distances
200 km (125 miles) SE of Kerman, Iran
260 km (160 miles) WSW of Zahedan, Iran
265 km (165 miles) ESE of Sirjan, Iran
990 km (620 miles) SE of TEHRAN, Iran

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 8.5 km (5.3 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters Nst= 39, Nph= 39, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.75 sec, Gp= 79°,
M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

Event ID uscvag

[optimistically_conservative]

Thanks for both the info and map! I would have no idea where to look for those. There have been a number of earthquakes reported lately. California and another one today Quake Shakes Panama-Costa Rica Border.

[tubebender]

This says it was a 6.7... http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/uscvad.htm

[John H K]

This is the third year in a row with below average large (magnitude 7+) earthquake activity.

This year it was REALLY low.

[Consort]

5.7 Quake hit Bam on 8/21/03

[nuconvert]

I believe there were 2 earthquakes.

[nuconvert]

2 quakes
8:56 and 10:06PM EST (6.7 and 5.4 respectively)

[sheik yerbouty]

It is the will of Allah! Mekhtoub!

[tubebender]

It has been 11 years since since Humboldt County has had a 6 or better quake. In 1992 we had a 6.5 6.8 and a 7.1 in less than 24 hours. Now that will "shake" your confidence.

As a side note we have only had 2 minor quakes in over 3 weeks and that really has me shaking as we need those small ones to relieve the stress. I called Prof Lori Dengler at HSU just before the SLO quake about it but she is more concerned about the lack of big ones.

[Grig]

Any chance this could have been an underground nuke test?