At least 528 people were injured in the 5.4 magnitude earthquake in Iran's West Azerbaijan province. Five hundred houses in 12 villages have been damaged.
The accident happened on Tuesday (October 4) at 3:30 pm.
According to the news agency AFP, five hundred houses in 12 villages were damaged by the earthquake in the northeastern province of Iran. completely destroyed Of these 50 houses.
The governor of West Azerbaijan Province, Mohammad Sadegh Motamedian, said the depth of the earthquake at the source was 10 kilometers. 528 people were injured. 135 of them have been admitted to hospital.
Mojtaba Khaled, spokesman for the National Emergency Service, said electricity and water supply lines had been cut in some villages near the epicenter of the quake, Salmas and Khoya.
Note that Iran is located at the meeting point of two tectonic plates. Earthquakes often occur there. In 1990, an earthquake of magnitude 7.4 in the northern part of Iran killed 40 thousand people and injured 300,000 people. Many became homeless.
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