IRIS: 1962 Qazvin (Iran) Earthquake Archive

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It was named "The Great Buyin-Zahra Earthquake" by the Institute of Geophysics, Tehran University.</p> <p>Since we have very little information about this earthquake, we urge scientists and engineers who have studied this earthquake to contribute their materials for this archive. Please contact William H. K. Lee at:<br/> <a href="mailto:lee%40usgs.gov">lee@usgs.gov</a> (office), or <a href="mailto:whklee%40ix.netcom.com">whklee@ix.netcom.com</a> (home).</p> <p>Contributors: Charles R. Hutt, William H. K. Lee.</p> <hr/> <p><strong>1.<a href="pdf/">Seismograms of the 1962 Qazvin (Iran) Earthquake:</a></strong> Selected <span class="caps">WWSSN</span> seismograms from this earthquake were scanned as part of the <span class="caps">ICSU</span> Scanning Project.<br/> Please note that there were two earlier earthquakes occurred on the same date: 1962 9/01 03:46 <span class="caps">UTC</span> 51.25N 179.66W M=6.5 1962 9/01 07:51 <span class="caps">UTC</span> 51.22N 179.79W M=?</p> <p>link to <a href="tif/">compressed tif file</a> directory (.gz format)</p> <p><strong>2. References:</strong><br/> Afshar, H. K. (?). “Report on the Great Buyin-Zahra Earthquake of Sep. 1st 1962”, Pub. No. 15, The Institute of Geophysics, Tehran University, Tehran University Press, 78 pp. and figures, photos,<br/> seismograms, and maps. </p> <p>Ambraseys, N. N., and Melville, C. P. (1982). “A History of Persian Earthquakes.”“, Cambridge Univ. 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IRIS: 1962 Qazvin (Iran) Earthquake Archive