*only* 20 out of a possible 20,000? thats a freekishly low number, isnt it? for every 1000 people who died, one survived?
What was I saying about comparing the death toll of a quake in california and one in a poor middle eastern country? This one in Iran is only 0.1 bigger on the richter scale but by the looks of it it's over a thousand times more devastating. Of coures another factor is where the quake hit. I know the quake in california was in a rural area but I'm not sure what the population of the city in Iran was...
Bam (ironic name, ain't it?) was a popular tourist attraction, a lot of ancient buildings apparently. I have a few minutes before work, I'll go look it up. Edit: What I'm finding is that NO ONE takes pictures of the current Bam (the tourist town, not the attraction). While there are pictures of ancient Arg-e-Bam, a city of mud, it is uninhabited. There is however, like I said, a tourist town nearby with a multiplicity of hotels, and many other businesses I would presume. Beginning to make me wonder how many tourists were involved in the quake...
they just had a guy on the news,he had 132 members of his extended family killed he is the only survivor,terrible
Its horrible- truly horrible. It seems to have brought out the best in the press too- the best that one rag could come up with was "british man dies in earthquake"... Sam
I know what you mean. It doesnt matter that 1000s of people died but "OMG A BRITISH PERSON DIED!! HORROR!" I dont mean to destroy the tone, but when i saw the title to this thread i thought ID had finally realsed their software in Iran...
Apparently a lot of deaths were because of the fact that their buildings were made out of brick. They would fall and crush the inhabitants. Very sad.
lol, me too. I was wondering how long it would be before the press was claiming that the game caused "Civil war amongst the people of Iran." Stupid media Very sad that so many people died, very sad. They had a short spot on the news about it, one elderly lady (80+) survived for several days by breathing through a pipe iirc. Scarry stuff.
