May 29 2022 14:32
An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale hit the city of Qasr Shirin in Kermanshah province, western Iran.
According to what was reported by (IRNA) news agency on the Seismological Center of the Geophysical Foundation of the University of Tehran.
The earthquake this morning at a depth of 13 km from the earth’s surface.
Previously, a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck the same region in 2017, killing…
620 people were killed, in addition to the injury of more than 12,000 others. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from today’s earthquake.
Iran is exposed to frequent earthquakes as a result of its occurrence in the collision zone between the plates located directly under the Earth’s crust.
Source: agencies
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