Earthquake in Iran (Last few hours?)

[speedy_thrills]

Any one know if there has been a segnificant earthquake today in Iran?

[evenflow]

6.1 in Southern Iran.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Qu...

[mmm-five]

Not heard anything (news or tremors) over here in Dubai.

Although the previous post reports it was about 150km from my location

Edited by mmm-five on Wednesday 10th September 12:26

[speedy_thrills]

evenflow said:

6.1 in Southern Iran.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Qu...

Good find, thanks mate.

[Chris71]

Sorry, blatant tin-foil helmet time, but I'm a bit bored, so...

What sort of number on the Richter scale would, say, a large atomic bomb going off at the bottom of a mineshaft register as?

[N1CK]

Chris71 said:

Sorry, blatant tin-foil helmet time, but I'm a bit bored, so...

What sort of number on the Richter scale would, say, a large atomic bomb going off at the bottom of a mineshaft register as?

6.1

[SleeperCell]

Chris71 said:

Sorry, blatant tin-foil helmet time, but I'm a bit bored, so...

What sort of number on the Richter scale would, say, a large atomic bomb going off at the bottom of a mineshaft register as?

According to this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_sca...

7.1 is equivalent to the 'Tsar' nuke, largest ever tested

your hiroshima/nagasaki stuff is listed at 5.0 so 6.1 would be about right for a decent modern nuclear weapon.

[speedy_thrills]

And an LHC generated black hole?

[Dover Nige]

SleeperCell said:

Chris71 said:

Sorry, blatant tin-foil helmet time, but I'm a bit bored, so...

What sort of number on the Richter scale would, say, a large atomic bomb going off at the bottom of a mineshaft register as?

According to this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_sca...

7.1 is equivalent to the 'Tsar' nuke, largest ever tested

your hiroshima/nagasaki stuff is listed at 5.0 so 6.1 would be about right for a decent modern nuclear weapon.

Blimey....

Here we go again. Enjoy your cars while we still can chaps...

[johnnywb]

£20 is was the American's or Israeli's with a pre-emptive strike.

American's report it was an Earthquake, Iranian's say it was a bomb.

Who's the rest of the world going to believe?

(well actually, i'm not sure)

[stackmonkey]

Depth reported as abut 55km - That's about the same as the depth of the Earth's crust!

[speedy_thrills]

BBC where kind enough to write an article eventually: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/76082...

Still a bit slow in response though, PH nearly beat them (3 mins like! TBH I searched around a bit first as well)...who needs foreign correspondants?

[deckster]

johnnywb said:

£20 is was the American's or Israeli's with a pre-emptive strike.

No obvious missiles going overhead here in Tel Aviv

Hope it's not kicking off, don't want to miss my flight home on Friday

[Fats25]

Anything to do with this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7604293.stm

Edited by Fats25 on Wednesday 10th September 13:49

[Chris71]

speedy_thrills said:

Any one know if there has been a segnificant earthquake today in Iran?

I'm quite impressed that PH (as mentioned above) carried the story before the BBC. Just goes to show you can find out anything on here.

Where did you first hear about it?

[speedy_thrills]

Chris71 said:

Where did you first hear about it?

Having a chat with a friend in Dubai(Possibly got the easiest cakewalk of a job out there next year but only for a couple of months ).

[Chris71]

speedy_thrills said:

Chris71 said:

Where did you first hear about it?

Having a chat with our man in Dubai.

EFA

(Still haven't removed the tin foil hat! )

[rich1231]

Chris71 said:

Sorry, blatant tin-foil helmet time, but I'm a bit bored, so...

What sort of number on the Richter scale would, say, a large atomic bomb going off at the bottom of a mineshaft register as?

It wouldnt.

Different sort of waves caused.

[Schermerhorn]

Does this mean that Israel will stop lobbying America and the rest of the world to attack Iran now then?