In the early hours of Friday, December 26, 2003, the ancient city of the southeastern Iranian city of Bam, with its structures built from mud bricks, trembled for 12 seconds.
The 6.6 magnitude earthquake resulted in the death of over 34,000 people, buried alive under the rubble.
Due to the high number of casualties, the earthquake stands as the third deadliest in Iran’s recent history, following the earthquakes in Ardabil in 1997 and Damghan in 2010.
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