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Bam earthquake - Coggle Diagram
Bam earthquake
Plate
Arabian plate colliding with Eurasian plates
Continental continenetal
Collison zone
Fold mountains
Fault lines runs through Iran
Blind fault that we didn't know existed
vulnerability
very low structural integrity
Lots of buildings made form sand and mud
Adobe mud
more modern buildings did survive
Some modern "earthquake proof" buildings didnt survive
Effect
6.7 on ricter scale
buildings collapsed
People were asleep so couldn't prepare
26,000 people dead
90% of buildings collapsed
Location and date
Iran
North of Sargross mountains
26th december 2003
Response
Families had to make shelter on the streets
iran was busy doing other things not the building codes
build back better idea constructs the buildings to a greater standard