Iranian Earthquake

[Diff-chan]

A few of you guys have made comparisons between the earthquakes in Santa Barbara and the one In Bam, it's kind of unfair to compair..since Bam is a 2000 year old city built with bricks and mud and Santa Barbara is what...60 years old..if that?

It is a fair comparison, because, well, why is there, in the year 2003, a town made out of bricks and mud in a place that can suffer an earthquake? Earthquakes are easy to predict. It's easy to figure out where an earthquake could potentially hit. The Iranian government SHOULD HAVE looked at this data, said "oh shit, we have a city made out of bricks and mud where an earthquake could hit", and modernize it. They had, I dont know, 2000 years to modernize the damn place, and 100 years to do it with seismic technology. They did shit, and now 35,000 people are dead because of it.

There are like 35,000 students at my university, and it would be like all of us dying in one day. It's goddamn ridiculous, and there was no reason for it.
Really this is a stunning example of a government not giving a shit about its citizens. I guess thats no big revelation when we are talking about Iran... but still it shows a lot. I am not Iranian, but I am incensed at the Iranian government for letting this happen. If I was Iranian, I would be 10000 times more incensed.

And just ignore Yoshi's bullshit.

[Abobo]

Diffusion X, trust me when I tell you that people in Iran are PISSED. Yeah the gov't knew about the earthquakes and did nothing. Last week the The Iranian President and Supreme Ruler went and visited the rubble, they had to have a wall of guards around them. People were yelling and screaming insults at them blameing them for everything. It's just one more atrocity that these sick bastards are doing to the people of Iran. It's a shame that all the US gov't can do is want to talk to them. Kind of makes me wish Iran had as much oil as Iraq....then the US would have "Liberated" Iran as well.

Yoshi, let me tell you that the that the money raised for the earthquakes in Iran is a drop in the bucket compared to what was raised for 9/11. I'm not saying that the victims of 9/11 are any less deserving, but there has been enough money raised for them. I could only wish that there was that much money for the families of the victimes of the earthquakes in Bam. 3500 People dead < 35000+ People dead. Also, the people that lost their lives on 9/11 for the most part lived pretty comfortable lives before those events. The people in Bam already lived in shitty conditions...now they don't even have that anymore. The money donated to the people in Bam is so they can maybe get back to what the had...which wasn't much in the first place.

[JM]

Yoshi, go back to Neomega you dick.

JM

[Gohron]

Natural disasters suck pretty damned bad, especially when people don't do what they can to prevent it and cause the death of thousands of people. Abobo I see donating money to this cause as an honorable thing, don't worry what anyone else thinks.

[Almaci]

This was an awful tragedy, but if you think about it... an earthquake of the same magnitude hit Santa Barbara a day before (or whatever). Two people died, and I think six more in related mudslides.

The body count is up to what, 35,000 in Bam?

Kinda makes you think about which government is doing things the right way. This isnt a point directed at Almaci or whomever, its just some brain food.

Seriously dude, what the fuck is youre fascination with me?

If the earthquake had been in Tehran BTW despite being a million city the deathcount would have been lower.
Bam was a historical city build from wood branches and mud mostly, big difference comparing that to a modern western city.

Has little to do with government and all with age of buildings and materials used.

that being said, building regulations in Iran are not what they should be in some places and are rarely well enforced in others.

[Diff-chan]

Uhh no fascination. I think youre a cunt, but thats about it.

Anyway, it doesnt matter if Bam was built yesterday or 3,000 years ago. Those wood branch and mud buildings should have been replaced sometime. Like I said predicting earthquakes is easy and predicting where earthquakes could potentially take place is even easier. The buildings should have been replaced and its impossible to dispute that.

[Almaci]

Uhh no fascination. I think youre a cunt, but thats about it.

Anyway, it doesnt matter if Bam was built yesterday or 3,000 years ago. Those wood branch and mud buildings should have been replaced sometime. Like I said predicting earthquakes is easy and predicting where earthquakes could potentially take place is even easier. The buildings should have been replaced and its impossible to dispute that.

Likewise we KNOW LA will one day dissapear into the ocean once nature has had enough of it and decides to shift the San Andreas faultline plates a lil so why are people still moving to LA and why is the Government allowing its largest economy and millions of its brightest people to live in a place wich they know will perish someday?

[Diff-chan]

LOL.

Holy shit.

Anyway, does the California government know California is earthquake prone?

Yes. There's on average 500 earthquakes a week here.

But are the seismic codes for buildings strict?

Yes, very much so. So when you get a big earthquake, like in Santa Barbara, you get 2 people dead and six more from related mudslides.

Fault lines are all over the place in Iran. They should have prepared for it. But the Iranian government doesn't give a shit, so you get 35,000 people dead in Bam.

I don't even know why you are arguing with me about this. I can't even believe you're defending the Iranian government for not protecting their citizens like that.

[Almaci]

Dude I am NOT.

Im drawing a paralel.
Its pretty much given fact that a large part of California will one day dissapear into the ocean.

[Diff-chan]

I'd love to see some documentation which says this.

With a timetable.