{"id":23200,"date":"2018-11-25T20:23:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T20:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23200"},"modified":"2018-11-25T20:23:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T20:23:43","slug":"6-3-magnitude-earthquake-hits-western-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23200","title":{"rendered":"6.3-magnitude earthquake hits western Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 has shaken western Iran<\/a> near its border with Iraq<\/a>, the US Geological Survey (USGS) has reported.<\/p>\n

USGS on Sunday said the\u00a0quake<\/a> was at a depth of 65km and struck 114km northwest of the city of Ilam in Iran’s Kermanshah province.<\/p>\n

Iranian state TV said six rescue teams have been dispatched to the area. No casualty has been reported so far, it said.<\/p>\n

At least 115 were injured in Sarpol-e Zahab and the neighbouring Gilan-e Gharb city, Kermanshah governor Houshang Bazvand told Fars news agency, the AFP news agency reported.<\/p>\n

“No reports of any fatalities yet and most of the injured were hurt while fleeing, not due to quake damage,” Pirhossein Koulivand, head of the state emergency services, told state TV.<\/p>\n

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Felt #earthquake<\/a> (#\u0632\u0644\u0632\u0644\u0647<\/a>) M4.1 strikes 23 km W of Sarpol-e Z\u0304ah\u0101b (#Iran<\/a>) 23 min ago. Please report to: https:\/\/t.co\/1D1sxg2XnW<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/cyywwub6UW<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 EMSC (@LastQuake) November 25, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Morteza Salimi of Iran’s Red Crescent told state TV that since the area was reconstructed after the last year’s quake, officials hope there won’t be casualties.<\/p>\n

Ali Moradi, head of Iran’s seismology centre, told state TV “the quake was not near bigger cities. But it might have caused damage in villages and I hope not that many villages are located where it hit.”<\/p>\n

The Iraqi state media said the tremor was felt in capital Baghdad and in Erbil in the Kurdistan region.<\/p>\n

The earthquake struck near Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran’s Kermanshah province,\u00a0where another quake, with a magnitude of 7.3, killed over 600 people last year.<\/p>\n

Iran is located on major seismic faults and experiences an earthquake a day on average, according to The Associated Press news agency.<\/p>\n

In 2003, a magnitude-6.6 earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam in southern Iran, killing 26,000 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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