Magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Iran's west

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The quake near border with Iraq injures over 200 people, local media reports

Magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Iran's west

A magnitude-6.4 temblor rocked western Iran near its border with Iraq, local media reported on Sunday. 

The epicenter of the quake was western Kermanshah province with a depth of seven kilometers (4.3 miles), according to the country's Seismological Center affiliated to the University of Tehran.

Citing Kermanshah Governor Houshang Bazvand, the Tasnim News Agency said that the quake injured at least 210 people, most of them slightly.

No casualties have been found yet. Search and rescue operations are continuing, Bazvand said. 

The shake was also felt in northern Iraq where one was killed and 45 others were injured, joint crisis coordination center of Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) said on Twitter. 

Around 620 people were killed when a 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook Kermanshah in western Iran in November, 2017.

Source : İHA
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