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By Sumit Bhattacharjee
VISAKHAPATNAM, DEC. 28. Natural calamities seem to be occurring in a pattern, that too with some strange coincidence. Exactly one year ago -- December 26, 2003 -- an earthquake of 6.6 intensity on the Richter scale devastated the historic city of Bam in Iran, leaving over 30,000 dead. Millions were rendered homeless. Bam was struck at 5.27 a.m. local time and a tsunami battered Indonesia at 8 a.m. local time in the eastern hemisphere.
First targets
During the Bhuj earthquake on January 26, 2001, the first to be affected were Air Force personnel and their families posted at the Bhuj air base. This time around too, airmen at Car Nicobar Island were affected first on Indian soil. Seventy years ago on January 15, 1934, north Bihar was rocked by an earthquake measuring 8 on the Richter scale. Over 10,000 people were killed then. Why do natural calamities choose December and January when the weather is at its best and people are in a holiday mood? Well, that's an esoteric question best left to the likes of Nostradamus.
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