Quakes Jolt City Northeast of Tehran

IRIB News ^ | Feb. 22, 2004

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Quakes Jolt City Northeast of Tehran

IRIB News

2004/02/22

08:57:53 Þ.Ù Tehran, Feb 22 - As many as 23 tremors jolted on Saturday vicinity of Damavand in the northeast of the capital city of Tehran.

Tehran University Geophysics Institute affiliated to the National Geophysics Organization said the tremors measured 1.2-4.4 degrees on the Richter scale.

It also registered the time of their occurrences from 10:00-21:00 hours local time (5:30 GMT-16:30 GMT).

There are no reports on possible injuries or damage.

It added earthquakes are frequent occurrences in Iran, a country sitting in major fault lines.

Iran is situated on some of the world's most active seismic fault lines and quakes of varying magnitudes are of usual occurrence.

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I Think It's Odd That This Doesn't Seem To Be On USGS Site. Anyone Have Another Independent Site From Iranians, Verifying These Quakes? Enquiring Minds want to know....................

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PONG

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Independent "OF" Iranians I should have said.

[Consort]

As the oil is pumped out, the land will sink to fill the void.

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But why aren't these quakes being reported on USGS web site? People in Iran are feeling them.

[Consort]

The USGS works at government speed.

[Spok]

Allah ticked off AGAIN? What's a mullah to do?

[Chris Talk]

No oil up there, oil is found in basin areas usually of low earthquake potential. Iran's earthquakes usually occur in the oil-less north and east of the country.

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Have any theories on why there doesn't seem to be more info on these quakes? (From an independent, scientific, source?)

[AdmSmith]

Here is the latest earthquake reports
USGS:
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/
and here is a map using USGS
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

another one http://www.earthquakenews.com/

They have not yet reported the Mosha earthquake, February,21,2004 more info here
http://www.bhrc.ac.ir/Bhrc/D-StGrMo/SHABAKEH/earthquake/Mosha/mosha.htm

IGTU reported a series of earthquakes that occured on February 21, 2004 which struck NE of Damavand city in the north of Iran. Gazanak, Mosha and Damavand accelerograph stations recorded these earthquakes .The epicenter of the greatest earthquake (12:07:04 UTC) is 35.78N, 52.29E (IGTU). The peak ground acceleration recorded are 33.63, 30.2, 61.58 cm/s/s on L, V and T component respectively in Gazanak station.

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Thanks for all your links. I especially like iris link.

However, the rest of the information is still coming from Iran. Why no independent sources? I still haven't seen anything on USGS site. Am I missing something?

[AdmSmith]

It takes time until the raw data is evaluated and the information is disseminated, if the magnitude is sufficiently large.

Take a look at The International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology in Tehran: http://www.iiees.ac.ir/English/eng_index.html and especially this map of the faults:
http://www.iiees.ac.ir/seismology/ActiveFault.pdf

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Well, the largest seems to be around 4.5, so fairly insignificant. And these were over 24 hours ago. They're that far behind at USGS?

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It's the Illuminati again...

[AdmSmith]

Another quake today:
http://www.payvand.com/news/04/feb/1163.html
Payvand's Iran News
2/22/04
Iran: Disasters HQ in Damavand holds emergency session after successive quakes

The Natural Disasters Headquarters of the town of Damavand near the capital Tehran jumped into action on Sunday to take necessary measures after the area was rattled by a series of earthquakes in succession, IRNA reported.

Local officials seemed to have taken a lesson from the December 26 earthquake in the city of Bam, in which more than 43,000 people died, which reportedly succeeded a series of moderate tremors.

Seismological bases of Tehran University's Geophysics Institute on Sunday registered a tremor with the magnitude of 3.6 degrees at 13:24 (0954 GMT) in Damavand which is situated 80 km northeast of Tehran. It followed another earthquake measuring 4.4 degrees on the open-ended Richter scale, which struck a day before.

The head of Damavand's Natural Disasters Headquarters, Hashem Valipour, appealed to the local residents to 'stay calm and cooperate with the related state institutions by observing safety measures at home and in public places'.

"All the related offices and institutions have been ordered to remain ready and vigilant and prepare relief squads as well as light and heavy vehicles and other equipment for possible relief operations," he said.

The earthquakes have also sounded alarm bells in the sprawling capital Tehran which, seismological specialists say, could suffer casualties in million, if it is struck by a strong earthquake.

The daily Tosse'e on Sunday quoted seismologist Dr Bahram Akasheh as saying that 15 years have passed since the probable occurrence of a major temblor in Tehran.

Specialists say delays of this extent could result in probable future earthquakes striking with added force.

"Greater Tehran is prone to earthquakes of even above seven degrees on the Richter scale," the paper quoted Akasheh as saying.

It said, "The earthquake of Damavand yesterday (Saturday) once again made Tehranis fearful of a big earthquake."

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Thanks. More news out of Iran............
Let me know when it hits the States. LoL.

I will say, they are sounding more convincing.

Me? skeptical?
Does this mean that the regime has affected my brain? LoL.

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The risk for an earthquake in Tehran within the next few years is very high. That would kill 1,000,000+

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Yes, I've read about the possibilities of death and destuction from an earthquake in Tehran area.
Since they have "secret" nuc facilities under the city,
they're looking at much worse problems than falling and collapsing debris.