Earthquake in Kermanshah, Iran

Kermanshah earthquake is the deadliest earthquake this year

A major relief operation has taken place on Monday following a strong earthquake that rocked the mountainous areas across the Iranian-Iraqi border, killing more than 400 people and injuring 7,000 people in Iran.

Relief teams are looking for survivors trapped in the rubble of buildings.

According to officials, an earthquake occurred at 21 and 48 minutes Sunday night, November 21, 30 kilometers northwest of Sar-e-Pul Zahab and 32 kilometers southwest of Halabja, and about 150 million people felt it in Iran and Iraq.

Earlier in the morning of Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Perehsson Cullin told reporters that the number of deaths has now reached 430 and injured at 7,156.

This is the deadliest earthquake this year.

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The UN estimates that more than a million and 800 thousand people live within a 100 km radius of the earthquake.

Major statistics on the deaths are attributed to the Sar-e-Pul Zahab city, 15 km from the Iraqi border in western Iran and then in other parts of Kermanshah province.

Major statistics on the deaths are attributed to the Sar-e-Pul Zahab city, 15 km from the Iraqi border in western Iran and then in other parts of Kermanshah province.

The main hospital in the city was severely damaged by the earthquake, and the Iranian television reported having cured hundreds of injured people.

Iranian media report that a woman and a living baby were pulled out of the rubble in Sar Pul Zahab.

Obvious eyewitness video shows that many of the buildings in the city are poured.
Drinking water is cut off in some cities and many people have been forced to spend the night in cold weather in parks or streets because of the ruin or vulnerability of buildings.

Many homes in this mountainous region, mostly Kurdish, are bricks and vulnerable to large earthquakes.

"We need shelter, where is the aid, where is the aid," said a resident of Sar-eul-e-Zahab, a state-run television station.

A rescue organization said 70,000 people needed shelter after the earthquake and there are reports that thousands are forced to spend the second night outdoors.

The depth of the earthquake was 23.2 kilometers, which is relatively small, and its tremors were felt in Turkey, Israel and Kuwait.

In 2003, a 6.6-degree earthquake destroyed the historic city of Bam, killing 26,000 people.

This is the deadliest earthquake that will occur in Iran in 2012.