Iran strikes again! 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 2 dead – 600 injured
Iran strikes again! – AFP Reported on January 29 that the University of Tehran Earthquake Center Iran announced that at 9:44 p.m. on Saturday, January 28, local time, earthquake magnitude 5.9 magnitude
centered in Muang Khoy West Azerbaijan Province north west of the country This resulted in at least two deaths and more than 580 injuries.
Mohammad Mothamedian, Governor of West Azerbaijan Province The Minister of Home Affairs and the director of the Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies rushed to the scene of the accident to order assistance. as well as giving encouragement to the victims
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck northwest Iran near the border with Turkey late Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring hundreds, state media said. The shallow quake hit the city of Khoy in West Azerbaijan province at 9:44pm, the Seismological Center of the University of Tehran said.
Iran is one of the countries prone to frequent earthquakes. Because the terrain is located in the tectonic area of the Earth’s crust. (Plate Tech Tonic) and earlier on January 18, the past had just had an earthquake of magnitude 5.8 near the city of Coy. causing hundreds of injuries
Iran’s record-breaking earthquake in 1990 after a magnitude 7.4 quake killed about 40,000 people, injured more than 300,000 and left some 500,000 homeless.
ภาพประกอบ: “So far this quake has left 580 injured and two dead,” West Azerbaijan governor Mohammad Sadegh Motamedian said, quoted by IRNA news agency. “The minister of interior and the chief of the Red Crescent Society are on their way to Khoy,” he added. AFP
ภาพประกอบ: Iran sits astride the boundaries of several major tectonic plates and experiences frequent seismic activity. On January 18, a 5.8 quake near Khoy left hundreds injured. In February 2020, a 5.7-magnitude earthquake that rattled the western village of Habash-e Olya killed at least nine people over the border in neighbouring Turkey. AFP
ภาพประกอบ: Iran’s deadliest recorded quake was a 7.4-magnitude tremor in 1990 that killed 40,000 people in the country’s north, injured 300,000 and left half a million homeless. REUTERS
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