DUBAI – A high intensity earthquake earlier reported at 5.9 has hit westernIran near the Iraqi border on Sunday, injuring about 31 people, most ofthem lightly, the state news agency IRNA reported.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) initially put the magnitude of the quakeat 5.9 but revised this later to 5.5.
According to USGS, the earthquake struck at a depth of 25 kilometres about145 kilometres north-east of Baghdad.
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Iran’s emergency services spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi told IRNA that 29 ofthe injured had been released after treatment following the earthquake inGilane-e-Gharb in Kermanshah province.
Civil defence teams have been put on high-alert to deal with any subsequentearthquake or aftershocks.
More than 90% of the country is covered by major fault lines, resulting infrequent and major earthquakes which have led to countless fatalities andinjuries. Since 1900, at least 126,000 have died in earthquakes in Iran.
