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Bam Earthquake

Bam Earthquake

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In the dawn light, Bam looked eternal—an ancient city of mud brick, date palms, and watchful citadel walls. But beneath that stillness, there was a hidden fault, a crack in the earth and in the logic of survival. What if permanence is only an illusion?Bam, in southeastern Iran, was a city shaped by centuries of adaptation. Its people coaxed life from the desert with underground water channels, built thick walls to keep the heat at bay, and settled into routines as old as the orchards themselves. The Arg-e Bam citadel rose above the city, a fortress of mud and brick that had withstood centuries of invasions and drought. To outsiders, Bam seemed destined to endure. But that confidence was built on habits, not on the science of earthquakes. Most homes were made of adobe or unreinforced brick—sturdy in dry climates, but brittle when the ground shakes. The city’s close-packed lanes and flat roofs, so practical for daily life, were also a hidden risk. As Bam’s population grew, so did its vulnerability. By two thousand three, tens of thousands lived in homes that would not flex if the earth began to move.Aurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 32 minutes, one complete story.Learn more at: https://thedisasterarchive.com/disaster/bam-earthquake

The Disaster Archive Dialogues is part of The Archive Network by Jonkai Ventures. In every episode, curators Aurelius and Malik take one catastrophe and work through it from the world before to the legacy after — one reconstructing the sequence, the other pressing on the human cost.

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