Sickboy

I'm a fan and love earthquakes *yes, I know I'm weird*, so I'm posting this. I feel bad tho for all the people that have died. Remember earthquakes dont kill people, buildings do.

Deadly Earthquake Strikes Southeast Iran
45 minutes ago


TEHRAN, Iran - 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.


The U.S. Geological Survey (news - web sites) reported the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.7, capable of causing severe damage, and hit at 5:27 a.m. local time.


"Many people have died," Kerman province Gov. Mohammad Ali Karimi told state media. "Many people are buried under the rubble."


Reports said the earthquake destroyed Bam's medieval fortress, a massive, 2,000-year-old structure that sits on a cliff near the city and attracts thousands of tourists each year. The fortress overlooks an ancient, abandoned city of mud huts.


State media reported damage in three villages around Bam and said telephone links with the city were severed. Authorities were in contact with the Bam area through radio and satellite phone links.


Authorities have sent numerous rescue workers with helicopters to the area, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.


"We are doing everything we can to rescue the injured and unearth the dead," television quoted Karimi as saying.


There were several aftershocks, one of magnitude 5.3, IRNA quoted the geophysics institute of Tehran University as saying.


Earthquakes (news - web sites) in the last 25 years have caused thousands of deaths in Iran, which sits on several fault lines. A magnitude 7.7 temblor killed 25,000 in 1978, and a magnitude 6 quake in June, 2002 killed 500 people.

ForeverInLoveWithJus

So far 2,000 people have been killed, its so sad.

Sickboy

Yeah its very sad, I heard the number went up to 5,000 to 6,000 people and 30,000 injured.

Sickboy

This is from AOL

The tremor injured 30,000 and destroyed about 70 percent of the buildings in the ancient city of Bam. Some officials now put the death toll at 20,000.

ForeverInLoveWithJus

Must be the worse feeling to be trapped like that.

ForeverInLoveWithJus

Well I feel sorry for all the poor people who have lost family and friends.

Sickboy

Im not a fan of the actual devastation it causes, Im just intriged by the fact that nature can do that.

ForeverInLoveWithJus

Oh right sorry, I find it interesting as well but I hate the amount of devastation it can cause.

Riapanonias

I heard that 70% of the populasion were gone now i hope its NOT true.

RoM

40.000 people have died, the state of Israel offeren the Iranian government aid, the Iranian government said it does not wish to get any help from zionists, oh well