{"id":12826,"date":"2018-08-26T17:22:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12826"},"modified":"2018-08-26T17:22:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T17:22:44","slug":"iran-earthquake-two-killed-as-strong-tremors-rattle-kermanshah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12826","title":{"rendered":"Iran earthquake: Two killed as strong tremors rattle Kermanshah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"94.7115384615\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least two people have been killed and at least 310 injured after a magnitude-6 earthquake struck western <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iran.html\">Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The US Geological Survey (USGS) said Sunday&#8217;s quake struck 26km southwest of the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah province, where more than 600 people were killed in an earthquake in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">State-run television station IRIB said the town of Tazehabad on the border with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iraq.html\">Iraq<\/a> was the worst hit and that rescue teams were on their way there.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 aftershocks had also been registered.<\/p>\n<p>The Iran Daily newspaper reported that the quake had been felt as far away as Baghdad, hundreds of kilometres further west, though no injuries were reported there.<\/p>\n<p>The quake hit at 2:43am local time (22:13 GMT) at a depth of 10km, according to the USGS.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the emergency department Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Saeb Sharidari, told state news agency IRNA that six people were in critical condition.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"3.72972972973\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">People rushed to hospital after strong earthquake hit western Iran<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranEarthquake?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranEarthquake<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t38tzPwyB5\">pic.twitter.com\/t38tzPwyB5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Press TV (@PressTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressTV\/status\/1033490781384978433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The provincial head of the Red Crescent, Mohammad Reza Amirian, said there had been at least 21 aftershocks.<\/p>\n<p>He said there were potential problems with drinking water due to damaged infrastructure in villages, but that it had not yet been necessary to distribute food and tents.<\/p>\n<p>Kermanshah governor Houshang Bazvand told the Tasnim news agency that electricity had been temporarily cut to several villages.<\/p>\n<p>A crisis centre was set up, with hospitals and relief organisations placed on alert.<\/p>\n<p>Iran sits on top of two major tectonic plates and sees frequent seismic activity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least two people have been killed and at least 310 injured after a magnitude-6 earthquake struck western Iran. The US Geological Survey (USGS) said Sunday&#8217;s quake struck 26km southwest of the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah province, where more than 600 people were killed in an earthquake in November. State-run television station IRIB said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}