Talk:Bam
From Academic Kids
Minor query, but this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3348613.stm) BBC article is reporting the earthquake happened at 0158 GMT -- two minutes later than we have here. --Sam 21:53, 26 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- USGS says " A strong earthquake occurred at 01:56:52 (UTC)". How much do you bet that this supposed "discrepancy" is cited over the next few days as "evidence" of some consipiratorial whatnot (CIA earthquake rays etc.)? -- Finlay McWalter 22:16, 26 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- I'd go with the USGS time because of the calculations involved in figuring out when and where a quake occurred - they must know time precisely to calculate the location. It's more likely that the BBC and AFP looked at a clock that had stopped after the fact. (I also checked to see if the problem might be something like an accumulation of leap seconds that USGS doesn't include in their reports, but that's not the case.) -- Ke4roh 18:08, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Somebody remove the line "A huge rescue effort is going on" - Hemanshu 01:23, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Did this and tried to merge the different earthquake sections. -- till we *) 15:48, Dec 30, 2003 (UTC)
I moved the section on Philology over from Bam Citadel, as it makes more sense here. Note the somewhat questionable copyright status of that article (still under discussion), so this imported section may require rewriting if the donor article turns out to be a problem. -- Finlay McWalter 14:24, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
On the quake, AP is reporting "more than 30,000 people killed", and this page is reporting "as many as 50,000 people killed". That's a wide range. What's a source for the 50,000? -- Ke4roh 18:11, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- No one knows for sure, of course, and probably never will. On Dec 30th the Iranian govt said it had buried 28,000 people, and estimated the total at 50,000 [1] (http://www.unwire.org/UNWire/20031230/449_11616.asp). We probably won't get a more accurate statistic for several months, if at all. -- Finlay McWalter 18:24, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- This page [2] (http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=21685&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs) says the Iranian government has now (mid Jan) recovered 41,000 and estimates total at over 45,000. Accordingly, I changed the article from 50,000 to 45,000. -- Finlay McWalter 19:30, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)
A minor thing: would "Surat-ol 'Ard" be a better transcription of the Arabic, and "Face of the Earth" a better English translation?
Also, one thing that struck me about the Bam earthquake was that in Nov? 1978, the similarly ancient? city of Tabas, also in the midst of the Dasht-e-Kavir, was completely obliterated by an earthquake. I think about 20,000 people died. Something might be added about that as a link?
And then, for the whole miserable picture, someone with geophysical knowledge might add something about the tectonic plates converging in the area (Arabian and Eurasian plates), the amount of plate movement per year (quite considerable), the inevitabity of further large-magnitude earthquakes.
I'm curious as to why there aren't any details about this event in comparion to other articles, afterall, this one WAS quite large and devastating as I recall.
