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42 yrs ago #OTD (on this day), the 16 September 1978 M7.4 Tabas earthquake struck eastern Iran, with an estimated death toll of 15,000-25,000.
42 yrs ago #OTD (on this day), the 16 September 1978 M7.4 Tabas earthquake struck eastern Iran, with an estimated death toll of 15,000-25,000.
The active plate boundaries around the Pacific Rim are fairly simple, but plate tectonics are more complicated where continents collide. The Alpine-Himalayan belt, which stretches from Europe to the Himalaya, comprises complex and distributed zones of faulting.
These faults are moreover mostly on land, creating a wide zone of high seismic hazard, the yellow-red swath in the map below.
