At least 5 killed, 120 injured in magnitude 5.9 earthquake in northwestern Iran - Emergency offical
FILE PHOTO: An Iranian flag flutters in front of the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria September 9, 2019.
An emergency official says a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in northwestern Iran has killed at least five people and injured 120 others.The shallow 5.9-magnitude quake struck about 120 kilometres southeast of the city of Tabriz, in East Azerbaijan Province, in the early hours of the morning, said the Iranian Seismological Centre.US Geological Survey issued an alert warning that "significant casualties are likely and the disaster is potentially widespread.
In 1990, a 7.4-magnitude quake in northern Iran killed 40,000 people, injured 300,000 and left half a million homeless, reducing dozens of towns and nearly 2,000 villages to rubble. Iran has experienced at least two other significant quakes in recent years, one in 2005 that killed more than 600 people and another in 2012 that left some 300 dead.
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