Am I being paranoid or does anyone else get nervous when there are reports of seismic activities near the areas in which Iran is doing its nuclear development:
(Reuters) – A powerful earthquake struck close to Iran’s only nuclear power station on Tuesday, killing 32 people and injuring 850 as it destroyed homes and devastated two small villages, Iranian media reported.
The 6.3 magnitude quake totally destroyed one village, a Red Crescent official told the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA), but the nearby Bushehr nuclear plant was undamaged, according to Iranian officials and the Russian company that built it.
The news report focuses on one of the areas of concern: apparently, the Bushehr plant was undamaged. But that’s not the only concern. Was it an earthquake? Did the earthquake have some help?
It’s certainly jolly that the Iranians are dong their nuclear research in an area that seismically active.
The whole country seems like it rests on fault lines. Makes you wonder if they were prescient if they named that one city Bam (the site of the last one with thousands of fatalities).
Steve
That’s… a little unnerving.
The Arabian Plate is still pushing up against the whole of Iran. The Zagros mountains are just one effect of slow-but-steady over a span of 20 million years.
Maybe this the the real source of Persian-Arab enmity?