{"id":202035,"date":"2022-10-06T00:28:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=202035"},"modified":"2022-10-06T00:28:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:58:22","slug":"over-500-injured-as-5-4-magnitude-earthquake-hits-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/10\/06\/over-500-injured-as-5-4-magnitude-earthquake-hits-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 500 Injured As 5.4-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tehran, Oct 5 (AFP): A 5.4 magnitude earthquake in northwestern Iran injured more than 500 people early Wednesday, most of them lightly, state media reported.<br \/>\n&#8220;The quake that hit at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) in West Azerbaijan province has injured 528 people, 135 of whom have been admitted to hospital,&#8221; the region&#8217;s governor Mohammad Sadegh Motamedian told state television.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The quake and its aftershocks &#8220;damaged 500 houses, completely destroying 50 of them, in 12 affected villages,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">State television aired footage of stores damaged and homes destroyed in the 3:30 am (0000 GMT) quake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">National emergency services spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi told the state broadcaster that &#8220;electricity and water have been cut in some villages&#8221; near the cities of Salmas and Khoy, which lie close to the epicentre of the earthquake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran sits astride the boundaries of several major tectonic plates and experiences frequent seismic activity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran&#8217;s deadliest quake was a 7.4-magnitude tremor in 1990 that killed 40,000 people, injured 300,000 and left half a million homeless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2003, a 6.6-magnitude quake in southeastern Iran levelled the ancient mud-brick city of Bam and killed at least 31,000 people<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran, Oct 5 (AFP): A 5.4 magnitude earthquake in northwestern Iran injured more than 500 people early Wednesday, most of them lightly, state media reported. &#8220;The quake that hit at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) in West Azerbaijan province has injured 528 people, 135 of whom have been admitted to hospital,&#8221; the region&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-202035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}