At least 330 people were killed and nearly 4,500 were injured in the earthquake in Asia by force 7,3 points under the Richter scale.
We will remind, about 100 aftershocks were recorded near the Iran-Iraq border.
Now rescuers try to find survivors under the collapsed buildings. The earthquake also triggered landslides that hamper rescue workers. The USGS reported that the quake was registered at 21.18 hours on November 12 (local time).
As of Monday morning, November 13, the death toll reached 328 in Iran and 7 in Iraq.
Kobra Fard, 49-year-old housewife from the Iranian city Sarpol—Sahab, told The Associated Pressthat she has not left a single thing – they are all buried under the collapsed house. «Right after I managed to get out, the building fell,» said Fard.
As reported by NBC, in rural Iran, many homes made of brick, which crumbles easily in the earthquake.
The head of the Iranian red Crescent said that more than 70 thousand people are in urgent need of shelters.
The earthquake was felt much further South in Baghdad, capital of Iraq, Kuwait and even Israel. In Baghdad, Majid Amer had lunch with their three children when the furniture around the beginning of the «dance». «First, I decided that it was a bomb, we ran out of the building, and all around were shouting: «Earthquake!».
Iran is located on several major lines of tectonic faults, there is a risk of fatal earthquakes.
In 2003 after an earthquake measuring 6.6 points in the historic city of BAM killed more than 30 thousand people.
