KM Reports from the Gulf, India March 12, 2002

Strong quake hit southern Iran, Gulf region

Dubai: A relatively strong quake which hit parts of Iran near the Persian Gulf Monday has left no damage to property or life, the head of the natural disasters department in Hormuzgan province, Mahnaz Emamdadi, told the official Iranian news agency IRNA on Tuesday. The Iranian quake had its impact in other parts of the Persian Gulf, and triggered an earthquake in Buraimi and Mahada near UAE that recorded 5.5 points on the Richter Scale.

The earthquake, measuring 5.2 degrees on the open-ended Richter scale, hit the southern city of Bandar Lengeh in the Hormuzgan Province at 23:37 hours (20:07 GMT) on Monday, the report quoted Geophysics Institute of Tehran University. "The earthquake started in the Persian Gulf waters, but nobody was hurt in the southern islands of Bandar Lengeh," Emamdadi said.

Officials confirmed that the Sunday earthquake in South Iran caused aftershocks in the wilayats of Madha and al Buraimi, boardering the UAE. The power of the earthquake was devastating. These earthquakes had their epicentre in the Strait of Hormuz. As indicated in some other recent cases of earthquake nuclear blast correlation, the current earthquake that occurred amidst reports of US military build up and Uncle Sam's plans to use nuclear weapons against Iran and Iraq raise serious concern.

Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Tuesday expressed concern at reports that the US military had been directed to prepare contingency plans for the use of nuclear weapons against certain countries, including Iran. According to the Los Angeles Times, the White House had asked the US military to draw up contingency plans to use nuclear weapons against China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria.

"It is deplorable to witness terror and violence instead of peace and coexistence in the year of 'dialogue among civilizations' and the start of the third millennium," Khatami said of his own brainchild which was announced as an international theme by the UN in 2001.Even though the Iranian earthquake measured only 5.2 on the Richter scale, the epicentre of the quake in the Gulf waters off the Iranian coast near the southern port city of Bandar-e-length is an area of military build up. Iran, which lies on a number of seismic fault lines, has often been hit by major and minor earthquakes.

 

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