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An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 hit western Iran near the Iraqi border on Sunday night, in the same area where another earthquake killed more than 600 people. Last year. There was no immediate report of casualties.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit western Iran near the Iraqi border on Sunday night, leaving more than 400 wounded and causing fear to flee. residents on the streets, the authorities announced.
Sunday was hit by an earthquake near Sarpol-e Zahab in the Iranian province of Kermanshah, the epicenter of an earthquake that killed more than 600 people and where some are still homeless .
The governor of Kermanshah province, Houshang Bazvand, told Iranian television that 411 people were injured, but most injuries were minor and only 15 were hospitalized. He said the wounded came from rural areas and the situation was under control.
Authorities said dozens of rescue teams were immediately deployed after the earthquake ended and that the country's army and its paramilitary revolutionary guards reacted.
Authorities reported damage to buildings in the city and rural areas of Kermanshah, as well as on some roads. The shaker also destroyed power lines and caused power outages at night when temperatures were around 46 degrees Fahrenheit (8 degrees Celsius).
The earthquake struck just after 8 pm in Iran, meaning that most were still awake at the time and able to flee quickly.
The 6.3 earthquake had a depth of 10 km, according to the US Geological Survey. Iran's state television announced a depth of 5 km. Such shallow earthquakes have greater damage.
The earthquake was felt until Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, about 175 kilometers to the southwest.
Iran is located on major seismic faults and is experiencing an earthquake per day on average. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastated the historic city of Bam in southern Iran, killing 26,000 people.
Last year's earthquake near Sarpol-e Zahab, a Kurdish-dominated city, was 7.3 magnitude and injured more than 9,000 people. The region, nestled in the Zagros Mountains, largely rebuilt in recent decades after the ruin of the Iranian and Iranian wars in the 1980s, has seen many buildings collapse or suffer significant damage during the earthquake of 2017 .
Sarpol-e Zahab, some 520 kilometers southwest of Tehran, the Iranian capital, has suffered half of the victims of the 2017 earthquake.
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Gambrell reported in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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