June 8, 2004

Residents of a village spend the night outdoors following the May 28 earthquake north of the capital Tehran. The millions of residents of the Iranian capital, housed on top of a string of seismic faultlines, had up until the May quake taken their geophysical predicament with a mixture of apathy and sheer ignorance [News]. But since the quake fears of a looming catastrophe have set in (AFP/File/Atta Kenare)

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