Zarand,+Iran+2005

=Zarand, Iran **2005**  =

Team Members:Emily Eisenhuth, Joe Cavaleri, Matt Cox
Directions: Answer the following questions using complete sentences.

1. Which areas of the world are more vulnerable to earthquakes and why? The most vulnerable is when the plates touch eachother and cause an earthquake to happen.

2. What are the major problems dealing with earthquakes in the different areas? A major problem a earthquake could damage is depended on the area hit, it also causes some families to starve to death. It can also cause families to loose loving members of the family.

3. Is there a successful way to predict earthquakes? Explain. There is no way possible to predict an earthquake because they basically just happen out of no where.

4. What causes earthquakes to occur? Earthquakes happen due to faulting, a sudden lateral or vertical movement of rock along a rupture surface.

5. What is your earthquake? Where is it found (Ex: northern China)? Our earthquake is Zarand in Iran. It is foud in the South West of Iran.

6. How long did the earthquake last? The earthquake only lasted 12 seconds but damaged a lot of things

7. What was the earthquake’s magnitude on the Richter scale? The earthquakes magnitude was hit by a 6.2 magnitude

8. What was the area like? (city, farmland, industrial, . . ) The area of Zarand, Iran was cold, snow capped mountains, and sometimes rainfalls.



9. How large was the population of people living in the area at the time of the earthquake? The population was 134,000 of which 59,000 urban areas of people living during the earthquakes.

10. What tectonic plate(s) were involved in this earthquake? (Use p664) The tectonic plates that are involved in the earthquake are called Arabian and Eureasian plates.

11. How many people were killed? Injured? Missing? The amount of people that were killed in the earthquake were 612 people. There was 1,500 people injuried during Zarand. In Zarand no one went missing during the earthquake.

12. What is the estimated cost in damage?The cost of the earthquake damage is 1.9 billion dollars due to damaging during Zarand.

13. What were the effects on the nearby community? Property damage? In the earthquake one hundred and three villages were damaged, 93,355 homes were destroyed, and one hundred twenty school were damaged during Zarand.

14. Have other earthquakes occurred at this location? Not just Zarand occured in the same area so did 30 other earthquakes. Some examples of other earthquakes that occuried were called Ardapil, Tabriz, Kashan, Danghan, and many more.

15. Other interesting information I found: When the earthquake happened 50 rescue teams, 3 cargo planes, 1 helicopter, and 17 ambulances were to save as many people as possible when this happened.

16. What is the most effective way to prepare for an earthquake? Where is the safest place to be inside your house? Where is the safest place to be outside? The safest place inside a house is under a table or a desk. But, outside the worse place to be is to stay as far away from trees and tall buildings in the area.

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