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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran said on Sunday that no deaths have been reported, but more than 400 people were injured after the earthquake struck a magnitude of 6.3. near the western Iraqi border, Iranian television reported.
The shock was also felt in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, and in Kuwait.
"We had 411 wounded, of whom 80% were treated and released … No deaths were reported," said Houshang Bazvand, governor of the western province of Kermanshah, on state television. .
Fears of aftershocks have sent residents of several cities in Kermanshah province into the streets and parks in cold weather, the Iranian media reported. The rescue teams were immediately deployed to the earthquake zone.
"No information has been reported yet and most of the injured have been injured while fleeing, not because of the earthquake," said Pirhossein Koulivand, head of Iran's emergency services, on national television.
State television reported minor damage in some buildings in the area. The earthquake caused landslides, but officials said all roads in the area remained open to traffic and that electricity was restored in most areas affected by the earthquake.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake occurred at a depth of 65 km and affected 114 km northwest of the city of Ilam, near the Iranian border.
Iran's media reports said shocks were felt in at least seven Iranian provinces, mainly in Kermanshah province, where last year more than 600 people were killed and thousands more injured in the earthquake. the most deadly in Iran for more than ten years.
Local officials said post-earthquake reconstruction is not expected to kill people in the area, where some people remain homeless after the earthquake last year.
Governor of Kermanshah, Bazvand, said more than 200 people were injured in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab, about 15 km from the border, near the epicenter of the earthquake.
The Iraqi Geological Survey said that the earthquake was felt in Baghdad, where the Interior Ministry said there would have been no casualties or casualties, Erbil in the Kurdistan region and others. Iraqi provinces.
The earthquake was felt in parts of Kuwait but no damage was reported, the official Kuna news agency said.
"Fortunately, the earthquake did not occur near major cities. But it could have caused damage in the villages and I hope that many villages are not where he was hit, "said Ali Moradi, head of the seismology center in Iran, on television. ;State.
Iran is straddling the main fault lines and is subject to frequent tremors. Last November, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit Kermanshah province. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in Kerman province killed 31,000 people and flattened the historic city of Bam.
Report from the Dubai Press Room, Hesham Hajali in Cairo and Ahmed Rasheed in Iraq; Written by Parisa Hafezi; Edited by Catherine Evans
