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Think of it as an aftershock - 14 months after the main temblor. In the early hours of last Tuesday morning, the earth around the town of Zarand, in Iran's Kerman province, was convulsed by a quake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale. Its epicenter was just 250 km northwest of Bam, where a violent tremor killed some 31,000 people in December 2003. This time, the death toll will be significantly lower. Zarand and the 50 villages affected have a total population of 30,000 and Kerman's deputy governor Mohammad-Javad Fadaee has confirmed more than 600 fatalities...
...come. Iran sits on a major rift; its capital, Tehran, nestles on a spaghetti junction of fault lines. Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany, head of Iran's International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology estimates that "the possibility of an earthquake measuring more than six on the Richter scale occurring now in Tehran is about 90%." "The government must have more oversight on new building constructions, making sure they obey safety codes," adds Abdollah Saidi of the Geological Survey of Iran. And a debate about moving the capital - and its 12 million inhabitants - has flared again. Ashtiany says the idea diverts attention...
...engineering and quake relief. Not only did they believe their seismologists could predict the next Big One, but their leaders also gave the impression they would be ready for it when it came. But when the ground shook under Kobe on Jan. 17, 1995, that faith suffered its own Richter shock, and Japanese confidence in their ability to outsmart nature lay in ruins ... By night people huddled in high schools or town halls, in stairwells or around bonfires. By day they drifted back to the wreckage of their lives. Kazumichi Kawabata, 45 and grieving, searched brokenly through the remains...
...your fingernails grow. As it moves, it is forced under the Burma plate to its east. Eighteen miles below the surface of the ocean, stresses that had been gradually accumulating forced the Burma plate to snap upward. That was a huge geological event, eventually measured at 9.0 on the Richter scale. The dislocation of the boundary between the Indian and Burma plates took place over a length of 745 miles and within three days had set off 68 aftershocks...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum presents an exhibition of sculpture by artists who were ambivalent toward the media. “Dependent Objects” presents the works of German artists beginning in the 1960’s including works by Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Charlotte Posenenske and Gerhard Richter. Through Jan 2. The Busch-Reisinger at the Fogg Museum...