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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Mother of all work accidents watch

Iran has an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale today.

As we've noted before, Iran is one of the most seismologically active areas on the planet. Over 7000 earthquakes have been recorded there. Here is a map showing where some of them have occurred, and when:


Is this the smartest place to build nuclear reactors, even for peaceful purposes?