Quake kills 1; first quake fatality in almost 2 years

Iran Times International July 30, 2010:An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale killed one aged woman in Fars province last Wednesday. It was first fatal quake in Iran in almost two years and only the second fatal quake in more than four years, an unusually quiet period for Iran. The quake struck just minutes after midnight July 21 and leveled four villages near the town of Lamerd along the border between Fars and Hormuz-gan province in the far south. At least 14 people were injured in the tremor, but the only death was an 80-year-old woman who died of internal bleeding before she could reach the hospital in Lamerd. The last super-quake in Iran was the one that leveled Bam December 27, 2003. The death toll was put at 31,000. In the six and half years since then, Iran has seen only six earthquakes with fatalities. The death toll for those six was 735, with 83 percent of the dead in just one of those. Here are the six quakes with fatalities since the Bam earthquake:

Locale Scale Date Dead

Chalus 5.5 05/28/04 35

Zarand 6.4 02/22/05 612

Qeshm 5.9 11/27/05 10

Lorestan 6.0 03/30/06 70

Qeshm 6.1 09/10/08 7

Lamerd 5.8 07/21/10 1

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