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ON October 5, a great earthquake shook large areas in the province of Khurasan in north-eastern Iran, together with parts of Russian Turkestan. The large area of destruction appears to indicate either that the depth of focus of the shock was greater than normal, or that there was more than one shock. Two hundred people are reported killed and thousands injured at Meshed, with two hundred killed at Dereges. Askhabad, a Russian town with 150,000 inhabitants, suffered severely, four hundred people being reported killed. Six thousand injured people have been evacuated by air, and a temporary water supply has had to be organised to replace the town's water supply disrupted by the earthquake.
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Earthquake in Iran. Nature 162, 647–648 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162647d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162647d0