About 300 injured in an earthquake hit northwestern Iran by 6.3 degrees

About 300 injured in an earthquake hit northwestern Iran by 6.3 degrees
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A 6.3-magnitude earthquake that hit western and northwestern provinces has killed about 300 people, our correspondent in Tehran said, adding that residents of the capital felt it
According to the Tehran University Seismological Center, the tremor occurred at 8 pm on Sunday and at a depth of 7 km inside the ground and 17 km from the city of Sarbel Go
The eastern provinces of Azerbaijan, Western Azerbaijan, Khuzestan and Hamdan, in western Iran, felt the quake
For his part, the emergency spokesman of Iran Mujtaba Khalidi, the epicenter of the earthquake is located near the city of Srebl go, which was exposed last year to a devastating earthquake that killed about 600 people
He said that "40 patients have been hospitalized so far as a result of minor injuries as a result of their departure from their homes."
Kermanshah governor said: "There were casualties as people left their homes as soon as they felt the earthquake." Fifty civilians were reported injured in the city of Sarbal, 50 in Gilan in the west and 15 in the city of Qasr Shirin
Our correspondent reported that the Iranian Red Crescent sent 6 teams to the earthquake areas, and that the city witnessed a power outage
For his part, the head of the Iranian supply forces, said that "the earthquake occurred in areas reconstructed as a result of the earthquake last year"
The head of the earthquake center in the province of Kermanshah, has been more than 5 thousand and 500 aftershocks in Kermanshah since the earthquake last year
On the other hand felt the population of the Iraqi capital Baghdad and a number of other Iraqi provinces, a tremor, estimated its strength by 4.2 on the Richter scale.
Our correspondent in Baghdad pointed out that the strength of the quake varied between regions, and that it affected the provinces of Babylon, Diwaniyah, Wasit, Dhi Qar, Najaf and Karbala
Source: RT