Word: gilan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rich Caspian agricultural provinces of Zanjan and Gilan cover 20,000 sq. mi. In one minute the earthquake, which measured as high as 7.7 on the Richter scale, turned scores of towns into wastelands of flattened houses and apartment buildings. Entire villages were reduced to rubble, their inhabitants buried beneath mountains of debris. Television film showed young men frantically trying to free victims from slides of dirt and the remains of homes. Women in black chadors clustered in town squares, fearful of returning home or lacking a home to return to. Children wept among the dead and the injured. Amid...
...Gilan, 5,000 residents of the town of Roudbar were killed and the settlement was 90% ruined. In Zanjan, the provincial capital was reported to be completely destroyed, along with 54 towns and villages. Most of the victims were buried beneath concrete walls and ceilings as they slept. Aftershocks rippled through the area in the next 36 hours, including one that registered 6.5 on the Richter scale. Iran's Red Crescent Society indicated that at least 400,000 people in a region of 3.7 million had been left homeless. The country's location between two seismic zones has rendered...