5.4 magnitude quake injures more than 500 people in Iran
October 5, 2022, 5:00 pm

5.4 magnitude quake injures more than 500 people in Iran

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Iran's state media reported that a 5.4-magnitude earthquake in northwestern Iran injured more than 500 people early on Wednesday (October 5), most of them lightly.

The region's governor Mohammad Sadegh Motamedian told state television: "The quake that hit at a depth of 10 kilometres in West Azerbaijan province has injured 528 people, 135 of whom have been admitted to hospital."

He added, the quake and its aftershocks "damaged 500 houses, completely destroying 50 of them, in 12 affected villages."

State television aired footage of stores damaged and homes destroyed in the 3.30am (0000 GMT) quake.

National emergency services spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi told the state broadcaster that "electricity and water have been cut in some villages" near the cities of Salmas and Khoy, which lie close to the epicentre of the earthquake.

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake in northwestern Iran injured more than 500 people early on Wednesday (October 5), most of them lightly

Iran sits astride the boundaries of several major tectonic plates and experiences frequent seismic activity.

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Iran's deadliest quake was a 7.4-magnitude tremor in 1990 that killed 40,000 people, injured 300,000 and left half a million homeless.

According to the report, in 2003, a 6.6-magnitude quake in southeastern Iran levelled the ancient mud-brick city of Bam and killed at least 31,000 people.

Source: straitstimes

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