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Add to Preferred SourcesAt least two people were killed and 225 others injured when a 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit city of Pishqaleh in North Khorasan province on Saturday night.
According to the seismological center affiliated to Tehran University Geophysics Institute, the quake occurred at 22:30:58 hours local time (18:00 GMT). The epicenter of the quake was recorded at 37.66 degrees latitude and 57.22 degrees longitude and it happened at a depth of 11 km below the surface at Pishqaleh region.
“Thirty seven search and rescue teams were sent to the quake-hit region immediately after the quake to save victims of the deadly tremor. Eighty percent of the injured and survivors of the incident have been relocated in tents,” Hassan Shakouri Managing Director of North Khorasan Red Crescent Society
Some twenty injured were hospitalized and the rest were taken after on the spot.
Iran sits astride several major faults in the earth’s crust, and is prone to frequent earthquakes, many of which have been devastating.
Source: IRNA. Read more here.
15 May, 2017