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*INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND METHODS IN APPLIED
SCIENCES
*INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION .....
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1.. Donation of the 10% of the registration fees from 4 conferences to the
victims of the earthquake of the town Bam in IRAN (December 2003)
On December 26, 2003 at 5:26 AM local time(1:56 AM UTC) Bam Citadel "the
biggest adobe structure of the world" and most of the city of Bam proper
were devastated by an earthquake. The United States Geological Survey
estimated its magnitude as 6.6 on the Richter scale. The BBC reported that
"70% of the modern city of Bam" was destroyed. Death toll numbers as high as
80,000 were rumoured on the street and 70,000 reported in the media.
However, the total death toll was given as 56,230 on January 17 and the
latest estimate from Tehran has halved previous estimates to 26,271 deaths.
An additional 50,000 were reported injured, however this number is very
uncertain; the most reported number is 30,000, which may have originated
from an early Reuters account. According to the Iranian news agency IRNA,
the old Bam Citadel was "levelled to the ground". An international relief
effort to help the survivors got under way as soon as news of the scale of
the disaster reached the outside world. Rescue efforts quickly became a body
recovery exercise, with many of the dead being buried in mass graves with
the mullahs sanctioning abbreviated Islamic burial rites due to the huge
numbers and fear of disease. The high death toll occurred because very few
people who were trapped when their mud-brick homes collapsed managed to
survive. Rescue workers reported that the collapsing mud-brick structures
had completely disintegrated and buried people in piles of earth, rather
than trapping them in voids or air pockets between building slabs, as would
happen in a concrete building collapse. Those few who did survive being
trapped were generally rescued within the first few hours, after being dug
out by local survivors, or were trapped in ventilated air pockets. Among the
survivors of the earthquake was 97-year-old Sharbanou Mazandarani, who was
trapped in her home for eight days. Rescue workers took three hours to dig
her out after sniffer dogs found her. She survived by being under a table
near a ventilation pipe. The international relief effort staged in the
earthquake's aftermath helped to thaw relations somewhat between Iran and
western countries. Numerous countries (including the United States and UK)
sent supplies and search-and-rescue teams including the International Rescue
Corps. In February of 2004 Bam was visited by Charles, Prince of Wales, a
further indication of the improvement of international relations following
the disaster.
WSEAS conferences of Hangzhou, China, April 6-8, 2008
*7th WSEAS Int. Conf. on APPLIED COMPUTER and APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE
(ACACOS '08)
www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/hangzhou/acacos/
*7th WSEAS Int. Conf. on INSTRUMENTATION, MEASUREMENT, CIRCUITS and SYSTEMS
(IMCAS'08)
www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/hangzhou/imcas
*8th WSEAS Int. Conf. on ROBOTICS, CONTROL and MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
(ROCOM'08)
www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/hangzhou/rocom
*8th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS & SIGNAL PROCESSING (MUSP '08)
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