Hora Atual em Baravāt, Irã — IRST.

An earthquake struck the Kerman province of southeastern Iran at 01:56 UTC on December 26, 2003. The Mw 6.6 strike-slip shock had a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). The earthquake was particularly destructive in Bam and Baravat, with 34,000 fatalities and 200,000 injuries officially reported. It was the deadliest natural disaster globally since the 1999 Vargas tragedy. The effects of the earthquake were exacerbated by the use of mud brick as the standard construction medium; many of the area's structures did not comply with earthquake regulations set in 1989.

Reading Baravāt against the global hubs: Dubai (~530 km), London (~5,379 km), Singapore (~5,708 km) are the close ones, with Los Angeles (~12,988 km) sitting on the opposite side of the planet — a good gut check when judging logistics windows.

Baravāt sits inside Irã — the Southern Asia subregion, capital Tehran, languages Persian (Farsi), currency IRR (﷼).

The closest mapped neighbors of Baravāt are Bam (6 km), Jīroft (78 km), ‘Anbarābād (85 km), Bāft (176 km), so commuter, logistics and same-day-trip planning will usually pull from this cluster.

Closest curated airport references from Baravāt: IFN Isfahan (745 km), MHD Mashhad (805 km), IKA Tehran (981 km).

In 2021, Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.