December 26, 2003
- A powerful earthquake occurs near the southern Iranian city of Bam at 0156 GMT (5. Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth 's crust that creates Seismic waves Earthquakes are recorded with a Seismometer For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. Bam is a city in Kerman Province of Iran. The city is the center of Bam County. 26am local time). The USGS estimates its magnitude as 6. The United States Geological Survey ( USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. 7 on the Richter scale. The Richter magnitude scale, or more correctly local magnitude M L scale assigns a single number to quantify the amount of seismic energy released The BBC reports that "70% of the modern city of Bam" is destroyed. Iranian government officials estimate the death toll at over 20,000 with a further 50,000 injured. Bam Citadel the largest adobe structure of the world is destroyed. The Arg-é Bam ( ارگ بم in Persian, " Bam citadel" was the largest Adobe building in the world located in Bam, a city Adobe bricks are a Natural building material made from Sand, Clay, water and some kind of fibrous or Organic material ( Sticks, The area of the citadel is about 180,000 square meters and the construction date of parts of it goes back for about 2500 years. [1][2][3]
- The death toll in the Chinese gas-leak rises to 191. [4]
- Fearing the state's BSE outbreak may extend beyond a single farm, the U.S. Department of Agriculture quarantines a second cattle farm in Washington state. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ( BSE) commonly known as Mad-Cow Disease ( MCD) is a fatal Neurodegenerative disease in Cattle Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government [5]
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