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2003-12-26 Iran

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Posted by Steve White 2003-12-26 1:12:56 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Do we kill them with kindness by sending aid to the region?

Posted by eLarson 2003-12-26 1:22:33 AM|| 2003-12-26 1:22:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Trailer of al-Reuters sally:

"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.

He doesn't sound very Islamist. I think he was supposed to blame it on Israelis. Wonder if he'll get a talking-to.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-26 2:27:23 AM|| 2003-12-26 2:27:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 One would think that naming a town in a known quake area "Bam" would preordain it getting it by an earthquake... that's like naming a town at the bottom of a mountain "Flatten"

Posted by Frank G 2003-12-26 10:42:39 AM|| 2003-12-26 10:42:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Hope it got some of their al-Q guests.

Posted by BH 2003-12-26 11:39:08 AM|| 2003-12-26 11:39:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Allah have a bad day yesterday?

Posted by tu3031 2003-12-26 12:00:44 PM|| 2003-12-26 12:00:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Reuters story update snippet:

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told Reuters Iran urgently sought sniffer dogs, blankets and medicines from the international community.

After recent big shake in [Izmit '99?] Turkey the Muslim street didn't want sniffer dogs. Thought they'd eat their dead. Have they wised up any?

... many other thoughts best left to your imagination. Complicated.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-26 1:46:50 PM|| 2003-12-26 1:46:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Israel offer any help just to tweak the blackhats?

Posted by Frank G 2003-12-26 2:33:54 PM|| 2003-12-26 2:33:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Iran has all this oil wealth, and rather than do such non-glamorous tasks such as updating building codes and retrofitting buildings, they decide to break the bank by building nuclear reactors and uranium concentrating facilities.

Another successful paradigm by the Black Turbans. Too bad people in Iran do not look inward and boot their asses out of power. What will it take?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-12-26 4:01:20 PM|| 2003-12-26 4:01:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Fred---your profound comment was the same thought that I had with the comparison between the earthquake in Iran and the other in Paso Robles.

I used to work with USGS in earthquake research in 1970 in the Paso Robles area. Actually in the east on the San Andreas fault starting at Parkfield and heading north through Slack Canyon and up to San Juan Batista. From our regional measurements, slip on the west side of the San Andreas was 30 mm/year north (not west), steady as she goes. Much of the fault NE of paso robles moves along steadily at the surface. You can see it in the fences with up to 3 ft offset in the old ones. But get up to Gilroy and north and the fault locks up. Since 1906 equivalent strain accumulated is about 8 ft! On Roberta Drive in Woodside (just south of San Francisco) there is an old redwood stump on the fault trace that was split in two by the earthquake. The west side was 12 ft farther north than the east side of the stump! Looking at and measuring these aspects of nature was one of the most humbling and interesting jobs I ever had.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-12-26 4:15:26 PM|| 2003-12-26 4:15:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Are we sure they aren't testing nukes underground?

Posted by 4thInfVet 2003-12-26 4:33:24 PM|| 2003-12-26 4:33:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 6.7 hits Cal. moderate to heavy damage,nobody dies.
6.7 hits Iran and levels a city 10's of thousands die....Hmmmmmm

Posted by raptor 2003-12-26 5:15:43 PM|| 2003-12-26 5:15:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Apparently, neither the California Building Code nor the Code of Hammurabi (see #229) are enforced regularly in Persia

Posted by Frank G 2003-12-26 5:29:12 PM|| 2003-12-26 5:29:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 raptor, #11
That's the question that came immediatly to my mind.
California: 6.7 Richter
10,000 temporarily without power.
Iran: 6.3 Richter
10,000 permanently dead.

"...Dozens of bodies littered the streets of the city"
What killed them if they were in the street ?
I think we should apply the 48 hour(or more)rule.

Posted by Larry Everett 2003-12-26 7:08:47 PM|| 2003-12-26 7:08:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Where are they going to bury the dead though? My guess would be in mass graves dug anywhere they can. Iran disrespected their safety in life, they'll do it to their corpse in death.

What do you guys think?

Posted by Charles 2003-12-26 8:29:13 PM|| 2003-12-26 8:29:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 It was the Jew H.A.A.R.P.

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-26 8:49:12 PM|| 2003-12-26 8:49:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 #10...that thought occurred to me also.Can any commenters out there enlighten us regarding location of nuclear facilities within earthquake prone areas of Iran.Could an underground test yield enough force to cause fault release?(I'm being premptively lazy before before looking around for info myself.)

Posted by RH 2003-12-26 11:37:06 PM|| 2003-12-26 11:37:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 in southern Missouri remain the largest (two) earthquakes ever to hit the contiguous U.S. (the main event is estimated at a magnitude 7.9).

The point being that to ask whether an area is earthquake prone is irrelevant cos EVERYWHERE is prone to earthquakes. What matters is the construction quality and safety mechanisms.

Posted by phil_b 2003-12-27 2:32:17 AM|| 2003-12-27 2:32:17 AM|| Front Page Top

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