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DUBAI (Reuters) – A magnitude 6.3 earthquake on the western border between Iran and Iraq has injured more than 600 people, most of them suffering minor injuries, national television reported on Monday, without causing casualties.
The Sunday night earthquake was felt in at least seven provinces of Iran, but especially in Kermanshah, where last year more than 600 people were killed and thousands more injured during the earthquake. murderer never registered in Iran for a decade.
"The number of injured reached 646 … Most of them were not hospitalized because of minor injuries," TV officials said.
President of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Mahmoud Mohammadi Nasab, said on television that there were no deaths.
The television broadcast images of damaged homes in the city of Sarpol-e Zahab, where some people are still homeless after the magnitude 7.3 earthquake last year. The Iranian news agency said two earthquakes measuring 5.2 and 4.6 on the Richter scale rocked Sarpol-e Zahab on Monday morning.
The fear of aftershocks has forced many people to spend the night on the streets in cold weather. The earthquake caused landslides in some areas, but the Iranian authorities said relief teams had access to all towns and villages.
Iran is straddling the main fault lines and is subject to frequent tremors. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in Kerman province killed 31,000 people and flattened the historic city of Bam.
Sunday's shock was also felt in Kuwait and the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, as well as in Erbil, Iraq's Kurdistan region and other Iraqi provinces, but no damage was reported.
Written by Parisa Hafezi; Edited by Nick Macfie
