Lessons from the recent twin earthquakes in Iran
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Within eleven minutes on 11 August 2012, twin earthquakes measured 6.3 and 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted Ahar and Varzaqan in northwestern Iran, claiming 300 lives and leaving thousands of injured in rural villages.12 The magnitude of the earthquakes was so immense that more than a hundred villages were 70-90% destroyed, while 20 being totally flattened. The primary estimations were suggestive of low number of casualties compared to the last major earthquakes that have recently happened in Iran. This could be attributed to the incident happening in the middle of the day when men had been working their fields.
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