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Day 3,646, 04:36 • Published in Iran Iran • by A.X.E








Iran's western Kermanshah province bore the brunt of the temblor, with Iran's state-run news agency reporting the quake killed 341 people in the country. State television said some 5,161 were injured. The area is a rural, mountainous region where residents rely mainly on farming to make a living.


In Iraq, according to Bloomberg, the earthquake killed at least seven people and injured 535 there, all in the country's northern, semiautonomous Kurdish region, according to Iraq's Interior Ministry.


The magnitude 7.3 quake was centered 19 miles (31 kilometers) outside the eastern Iraqi city of Halabja, according to the most recent measurements from the U.S. Geological Survey. It struck at a depth of 23.2 kilometers (14.4 miles), a shallow depth that can have broader damage. Magnitude 7 earthquakes on their own are capable of widespread, heavy damage.


Iranian social media and news agencies showed images and videos of people fleeing their homes into the night. More than 100 aftershocks followed.

The quake's worst damage appeared to be in the town of Sarpol-e-Zahab in Kermanshah province, which sits in the Zagros Mountains that divide Iran and Iraq.