1968 8/31 10:47 UTC 34.03N 58.96E 11km Mw=7.2, Dasht-e-Bayaz, Iran
The death toll of this earthquake was about 15,000. It was named "The Great Dasht-e- Bayaz Earthquake" by the Institute of Geophysics, Tehran University.
We urge scientists and
engineers who have studied this earthquake to contribute their materials for this archive.
Please contact William H. K. Lee at: lee@usgs.gov (office), or
whklee@ix.netcom.com (home).
Contributors: Charles R. Hutt, William H. K. Lee.
1.Seismograms of the 1968
Dasht-e-Bayaz (Iran) Earthquake:
Selected WWSSN
seismograms from this earthquake were scanned as part of the ICSU
Scanning Project.
Please note that the largest aftershock appears in some of the seismograms:
1968 9/01 07:27 UTC 34.07N 58.21E Ms=6.3
link to compressed tif file directory (.gz format)
2. References:
Afshar, H. K. (?). “Report on the Great Dasht-e-Bayaz Earthquake of Aug. 31st and Sep. 1st 1968”, Pub. No. 46, The Institute of Geophysics, Tehran University, Tehran University Press, 117 pp. and figures, photos, seismograms, and maps. Ambraseys, N. N., and
Melville, C. P. (1982). “A History of Persian Earthquakes.”, Cambridge Univ. Press, 219 pp.
Ambraseys, N. N., Anderson, G., Bubnov, S., Crampin, S., Shahidi, M., Tassios, T.P., and Tchalenko, J. S. (1969). “Dasht-e-Bayaz Earthquake of 31 August 1968”, Serial No. 1214/BMS.RD/SCE, UNESCO, Paris, May 1969.
Ambraseys, N. N., and Moinfar, A. A. (1977). “Iran Earthquakes 1968”, Pub. No. 69, Technical Research & Standards Bureau, Plan and Budget Organization, Tehran, Iran, 20 pp.
Brown, R. D. (1969). “Geologic Appraisal of the 1968 Earthquakes, Khorassan Province, Iran”, Project Report Iran Investigations (IR) IR-3, U. S. Geological Survey, 52 pp.
Moinfar, A. A. (1969). “ Dasht-e-Bayaz amd Ferdpws Earthquakes: An Engineering study of the Khorassan (Iran) earthquakes of August 31, and September 1st 1968”, Pub. No. 21, Technical Research & Standards Bureau, Plan and Budget Organization, Tehran, Iran.
(Last Updated: October 2, 2004)
