Over 600 injured in Iran quake

Tehran: At least 634 people were injured in the magnitude-6.4 earthquake that struck Iran’s Kermanshah province, authorities said on Monday.
There has been no report of any fatal casualties, Xinhua news agency quoted Mahamoud Reza, president of Medical Science University of Kermanshah province, as saying. According to the Iranian Seismological Centre, the epicentre of the earthquake, which took place on Sunday night in Sar Pol Zahab city, lied at a depth of 7 km, 34.38 degrees north latitude and 45.70 degrees east longitude. At least 161 aftershocks, ranging from 2.4 to 5.2 magnitude, have been registered in the region so far. In November 2017, 211 people died in a magnitude-7.3 earthquake that hit the Iran-Iraq border. (IANS)