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Magnitude 5.9 Earthquake In Iran Injures Nearly 290

Iran(July 23, 2018): A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit western Iran on Sunday, injuring at least 287 people, hours after two quakes struck Hormozgan province in the south, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported.

Eight of the injured had been hospitalized and the rest were released after treatment, Houshang Bazvand, governor of the affected province of Kermanshah. State media said the two earlier earthquakes, with magnitudes of 4.7 and 5.7, had damaged buildings in a few villages in Hormozgan without causing casualties.

Morteza Salimi, head of rescue at Iran’s Red Crescent Society, said damage from the two earlier quakes appeared to be light.
Iran is crisscrossed by major geological fault lines and has suffered several devastating earthquakes in recent years.