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1990 Manjil-Rudbar earthquake

Date	June 21, 1990 (1990-06-21)
Magnitude	7.4 Mw[1]
Depth	19 Kilometers
Epicenter location	36°57′25″N 49°24′32″E / 36.957°N 49.409°E / 36.957; 49.409
Countries/ regions affected	Iran
Casualties	up to 50,000 dead[2]

The Manjil-Rudbar Earthquake occurred at 00:30:09 on June 21, 1990 (21:00:09 June 20, 1990 UTC). It 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 not only in damage but in health care in damage in Gilan and Zanjan provinces southwest of the Caspian 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.

The famous Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, who has stood out among the world's most success and incisive directors, was shocked by the death of the boy who played in his precedent film Where Is the Friend's Home?. After the accident, Abbas started to conduct a new film to present his contemplatation and reflection on catastrophes and humanity. Abbas uses the themes of life, death, change, and continuity to connect the films. Despite the pessimism may caused by the disastrous natural event which took 50,000 lives including his innocent boy actor, Abbas ended the film with a positive and fairly encouraging perspective that humanity still strives for its own right and existence even striked by the interruption from external forces, and it is exactly with such sympathy and ethos that Abbas entitle this memorial film:And Life Goes On.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/1990/1990_stats.html
2. ^ http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/1990/

[edit] External links

• Damage of Manjil-Rudbar earthquake. Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

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