The Iran Earthquake of June 1990, also known as the Manjil-Rudbar Earthquake, caused widespread damage in areas within a one hundred kilometer radius of the epicenter near the City of Rasht and about two hundred kilometers northwest of Tehran. The cities of Rudbar, Manjil, and Lushan and 700 villages were destroyed, and over three hundred villages were affected. There was $7,000,000 in damage in Gilan and Zanjan provinces southwest of the Caspian Sea. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For other uses, see Tehran (disambiguation). ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Manjil is a historical town in the southern basin of Caspian in Northern Iran. ... Lushan is famous for its villas. ... The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the worlds largest lake or a full-fledged sea. ...
100,000 adobe houses sustained major damage or collapsed resulting in forty thousand fatalities, and sixty thousand injured. 500,000 people were left homeless. Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico Adobe is a natural building material composed of sand, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dried in the sun. ...
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