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A minimum of 4 folks have been killed and 120 injured Tuesday in a 4.9 magnitude earthquake that shook Iran’s northeastern metropolis of Kashmar, state media has reported.
The quake struck at 1:24 pm (0954 GMT), Kashmar’s governor, Hajatollah Shariatmadari, who gave the casualty toll, stated on state tv.
Thirty-five folks had been hospitalised, he stated, including the quake broken principally dilapidated buildings in city and rural areas of the town.
State tv aired footage of the aftermath of the quake exhibiting first responders working in a road the place all buildings had been diminished to rubble.
America Geological Survey stated the earthquake hit at a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles).
Iran sits atop varied tectonic plates and is usually hit by earthquakes.
A 5.9 magnitude quake early final 12 months killed three folks and injured over 800 within the nation’s mountainous northwest, close to the border with Turkey.
And in one of many world’s deadliest disasters, a 6.6 magnitude earthquake killed over 31,000 folks in Iran’s southeastern metropolis of Bam in 2003.
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