Boobquake World Map

Boobquake-Worldmap, originally uploaded by miked918.

This Boobquake world map shows tracking of Boobquake in social media in late April 2010, says the author who originally uploaded this map. The bigger the pushpin in the map above, the more the results from people who claim to be from that country, reportedly, of the power of 36DD on the Richter scale or more. The quake, reportedly, was triggered of by an Iranian cleric who claimed that exposure of the skin by women caused earthquakes. To read the story behind Boobquake, read at www.blaghag.com/

Boobquake 2010: Modestly dressed women seldom make earthquakes

modestshirt, originally uploaded by john@comicslifestyle.

This modestshirt available at Blag Hag Blog is printed with the message 'Modestly dressed women seldom make earthquakes, Boobquake 2010'. The movement ‘Boobquake’ was kick-started by Jen McCreight, an American student from Indiana, in protest against the comment of the Iranian cleric Kazem Sedighi, 'Many women who do not dress modestly... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes.'

Iran is a country that is constantly rocked by earthquakes. A major earthquake of a moment magnitude (Mw) of 6.6 on the Richter scale struck the Iranian city of Bam, surrounding Kerman province, on December 26, 2003. It occurred as a result of stresses generated by the motion of the Arabian plate northward against the Eurasian plate at the rate of approximately 3 centimeters (1 inch) per year. Deformation of the Earth's crust in response to the plate motion takes place in a broad zone that spans the entire width of Iran and extends into Turkmenistan.

There is little earthquake education in Iran, and the cleric also seems to be a product of it, though The International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology was established as a Public Education Department in 1990 to improve "the safety, preventing, and preparedness culture against earthquakes among all groups of the society." It may be noted, in October 2003, Bahram Akasheh, professor of geophysics at Tehran University, called the effects of public ignorance about earthquakes ‘poisonous’.

Following the Bam earthquake, Iran seriously considered moving the capital of Tehran, which lies on a major fault, on which scientists predicted a devastating earthquake similar to that of Bam. The most cited example was Isfahan, a city in central Iran that had previously served as capital until it was moved to Tehran in 1788. A similar movement to move the capital was proposed in 1991, but it is not implemented by the Iranian government.

What the clerics and the government of Iran need to do on an emergency basis is to educate people on earthquake preparedness, retrofit the poorly built buildings, and to build earthquake resistant buildings for the future, if they are genuinely concerned about the safety of the people, instead of telling people that immodest dress of women causes earthquakes.

Dollar store corsage edition of boobquake

boobquake: dollar store corsage edition, originally uploaded by mollykiely.

American student from Indiana, Jen McCreight, found a novel way to protest against men deciding how women should dress, as an Iranian cleric commented women showing their skin causes earthquakes. His statement is too unscientific, and shows his limited knowledge of seismic activities and movement of tectonic plates. He also forgets that every second somewhere on earth earthquakes of minor intensity occurs.

A major earthquake that struck the Iranian city of Bam, surrounding Kerman province of southeastern Iran, on December 26, 2003, a moment magnitude (Mw) of 6.6 on the Richter scale, killed 26,271 people and injured an additional 30,000. The effects of the earthquake and damage was exacerbated by the fact that the city mainly consisted of mud brick buildings, many of which did not comply with earthquake regulations set in Iran in 1989.

Iran had a strained diplomatic relationship with the United States, but the quake thawed it. Following the earthquake the U.S. offered direct humanitarian assistance to Iran and in return the state promised to comply with an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency which supports greater monitoring of its nuclear interests. In total a reported 44 countries sent in personnel to assist in relief operations and 60 countries offered assistance. Bam is still not fully reconstructed. Most of the populated areas of Iran, including Tehran, have buildings that are not built according to earthquake resistant designs. The capital Tehran itself sits on a huge fault line.

So, instead of concentrating on how women dress, it will help the clerics and the Government of Iran, if they think about earthquake preparedness. As this story shows, in case of calamities, the first relief measures may come from countries that have people, including women, who do not subscribe to the thinking of the clerics!

Boobquake Day!

Boobquake Day!, originally uploaded by JeanC38.

A group is created on Flickr for posting photos of women posting photos on Boobquake Day! Click to view beautiful women from around the world showing cleavage to protest against an Iranian cleric's comment that women showing their skin causes earthquakes.

Inquiring minds want to know: Will boobs create earthquake mayhem?

boobquake, originally uploaded by beebalalou.

This photo's author asks, "Will the boobs create earthquake mayhem?
inquiring minds want to know..."

Well, you must have already received the results by now. American university student Jen McCreight protested a statement made by an Islamic cleric claiming female immodesty caused earthquakes. McCreight, a 22-year-old attending Purdue University in Indiana, was encouraging women to bare their cleavage for a day in response to Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, Tehran's acting Friday prayer leader, who recently blamed earthquakes on immodest female clothing. Her move became very popular because ‘people are increasingly fed up with supernatural, anti-science statements, especially when they're hateful towards women’.

"Many women who do not dress modestly… lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes," Mr. Sedighi told Iranian media on April 16.

Boobquake - 36DD on the Richter scale

boobquake, originally uploaded by Brenda M Shaw.

An Iranian cleric's claim that showing skin by women causes earthquakes was almost proved to be true, after Taiwan experienced a temblor coinciding with women across the globe baring their breasts in defiance, a media report said Tuesday. The cleric Kazem Sedighi had said on April 12, 'Many women who do not dress modestly... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes.'

To show how irrational such statements can be Jen McCreight of www.BlagHag.com, “a liberal, geeky, nerdy, scientific, perverted atheist feminist trapped in Indiana”, kick-started Boobquake, for which over 200,000 women across the world, including from Iran, registered on the Facebook event 'Boobquake'.

Coincidentally, a tremor measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale, hit Taiwan on Monday, though it caused very little damage, like, buildings swayed briefly but none fell and there were no casualties, and a landslide over a three-lane highway, burying three cars.

She said, 'I don't want people to force themselves to dress more immodestly than they feel comfortable. But if you want to wear a low-cut shirt or some shorts, whatever you like. And we're going to see if we actually cause more or more severe earthquakes today.’

According to Wikipedia 'There are around 500,000 earthquakes each year, 100,000 of these can actually be felt and minor earthquakes occur nearly constantly around the world in places like California and Alaska in the U.S., as well as in Guatemala, and, Chile, Peru, Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, the Azores in Portugal, Turkey, New Zealand, Greece, Italy, and Japan, but earthquakes can occur almost anywhere, including New York City, London, and Australia. Given such frequent occurrence of quakes, and the number of quakes from 6.0 to 6.9 account for about 37% of all quakes, linking the dress-styles of women to earthquakes is irrational.

Boobquake Bench Monday Shot

225/365 Bench Monday - Boobquake Edition!, originally uploaded by Young Star Melissa.

Young Star Melissa, the author of this beautiful shot says, "I wanted to do a Boobquake Bench Monday shot today, so I went to the park since this bench is covered because it was raining & cold! I did not want to stand in the rain, although that could have been a good shot... I like the outtake picture better but that damn glare on my glasses ruins it. This shot was the last one I took and I was shivering by this time lol".

Boobquake Day was organized by a Purdue University senior Jennifer McCreight on April 19 in response to an Iranian cleric's opinion that women showing too much skin could cause earthquakes. According to reports, McCreight's Boobquake Facebook page attracted more than 90,000 followers. Her goal was to test if an increased exposure to ‘women's cleavage increased earthquakes in either number or severity’. Several thousands of women from the all parts of the world, including Iran took part in the event, as most of them felt that the cleric’s comment was too irrational and it amounted to men deciding what women should wear.

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