7.8 earthquake 50 km east of Pak-Iran border.

[SOHEIL]

12 Injured in Magnitude-7.6 Quake in Southeastern Iran​

TEHRAN (FNA)- The powerful earthquake which jolted Southeastern Iran and several other countries across the region a few hours ago has injured only 12 people for its epicenter was located in the depth of 95 kilometers reducing its impact to the size of a magnitude-4 quake on the surface, officials said Tuesday evening.

The earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale jolted an area near the town of Saravan in Iran's Southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan province near the border with Pakistan earlier today.

The Seismological center of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University registered the quake at 15:14 hours local time (1044 GMT).

The center said the epicenter of the quake was located in an area 62.03 degrees in longitude and 28.04 degrees in latitude. It added that the quake's epicenter was located in a desert area around 81km North of Saravan and in the depth of 95km.

The quake shook the area for 40 seconds. Relief and rescue squads have already rushed to the quake-hit areas.

The area has already been hit by several aftershocks, including the last one which measured 4.4 on the Richter scale.

Reports said the earthquake was so strong that its tremors were felt across the region of the Middle-East, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Oman and all the way to Pakistan, Afghanistan and North India, including Delhi, India's capital.

Initial reports said that the quake has killed no one and only injured 12, including 8 outpatients and four others who have been hospitalized in nearby cities. Meantime, the earthquake destroyed more than 1000 homes in Pakistan.

Mehdi Zare, a deputy director at the Tehran University's seismological research center, said that the quake was 50 times more powerful than the last Tuesday quake in Bushehr province South of Iran. He said that the quake was unprecedented in the past 100 years, but it has not left much casualties or damage to properties due to the fact that its epicenter has been deep into the ground making its tremors feel like a magnitude-4 quake, and that most people in the arid area live in tents and in the scattered populations.

A 6.1 magnitude quake struck Bushehr province last Tuesday killing at least 39 people and injuring 850 more as it devastated small villages. The epicenter of earthquake was located in the town of Kaki, 60 miles (96km) Southeast of Bushehr.

The nearby Bushehr nuclear plant remained undamaged.

Iran sits astride several major faults in the earth's crust, and is prone to frequent earthquakes, many of which have been devastating.

The worst in recent times hit Bam in southeastern Kerman province in December 2003, killing 31,000 people - about a quarter of its population - and destroying the city's ancient mud-built citadel.

The deadliest quake in the country was in June 1990 and measured 7.7 on the Richter scale. About 37,000 people were killed and more than 100,000 injured in the northwestern provinces of Gilan and Zanjan. It devastated 27 towns and about 1,870 villages.

Fars News Agency :: 12 Injured in Magnitude-7.6 Quake in Southeastern Iran

 

[Abii]

I lived in Iran for 12 years and every year there was a major quake episode in my city from what I remeber. One time our whole house started moving and I thought my closet would come flying down on my head. 2 secs later my dad bolts in and grabs me. We slept outside in the street with the whole neighborhood that night. lol it was kind of neat.

Freaking plate tectonics

hey, at least there's a chance that the Iranian plate can break away and seperate from the sand countries around us.

 

[W.11]

34 people have been killed in mashkhel

 

[Vassnti]

Sad news though i would like to belive the early reports of few injured 7.8 in an area that would have a lot of older homes of not particularly strong construction we need to be prepared for more bad news as army and rescue people get into the area.

Again my prayers for the dead and the injured i just wish i didnt have to say that so often seems there have been too many bad quakes the last few years.

 

[W.11]

Pakistan bears brunt of Iranian earthquake, 35 killed



By Gul Yousafzai
QUETTA, Pakistan | Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:28pm BST
(Reuters) - A powerful earthquake struck a border area of southeast Iran on Tuesday killing at least 35 people in neighbouring Pakistan, destroying hundreds of houses and shaking buildings as far away as India and Gulf Arab states.

Communications with the sparsely-populated desert and mountain region were largely cut off, making it difficult to assess Iranian casualties. But an Iranian provincial governor later said there were no reports of deaths there so far.

"Our staff were in a meeting and we felt the ground shake," Saleh Mangi, Programme Unit Manager for Plan International in the Pakistani town of Thatta, was quoted as saying by the British office of the children's charity.

"It was horrible - we felt the movement in the chairs and even the cupboards were shaking. This is the strongest quake I have felt since the 1980s."

Pakistani officials said at least 30 people were killed and 150 injured in the town of Mashkeel in the south-western Pakistani province of Baluchistan, which borders Iran.

Mohammed Ashraf, head of a health centre in Mashkeel, said several hundred houses in the town had caved in. Three women and two children were also killed when their mud house collapsed in the Baluchistan district of Panjgur.

"The earthquake has killed at least five people in Panjgur," said Ali Imran, an official at the government disaster-response unit in Quetta, Baluchistan's main city.

Pakistan's army said it had deployed troops and helicopters to ferry tents, medicines and medical teams to Mashkeel.

IRAN RELATIVELY UNSCATHED

Iran appeared to have emerged relatively unscathed. National media reported that 27 people were injured and that the significant depth was the likely reason for the relatively low level of damage from a 7.8 magnitude quake.

Soon after the quake, an Iranian official told Reuters he expected hundreds of dead and state media quoted unconfirmed reports of 40 fatalities in Iran.

But Hatam Narouyi, governor of Iran's Sistan and Baluchistan province, said there were "no fatalities", the student news agency (ISNA) reported.

The U.S. Geological Survey, in a revised bulletin, said the quake hit at 1044 GMT at a depth of 82 km (51 miles). The epicentre was 198 km (123 miles) southeast of the city of Zahedan and 250 km northwest of Turbat in Pakistan.

People in the Iranian city of Zahedan poured into the streets when it struck, Fars news agency reported. Officials in Saravan, the nearest city to the epicentre, said there had been no serious damage.

Iranian Red Crescent official Morteza Moradipour said emergency crews, including dog teams to sniff through the debris for any buried survivors, had reached the area.

"Because of the strength of the earthquake we had expected to see significant damage in residential areas but the quake was at a depth of 95 km and therefore the extent of the damage was on par with earthquakes measuring magnitude 4," he said.

The U.N.'s Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it was in contact with authorities in Iran and "stands ready to assist upon request", a spokesman said.

NUCLEAR RISK

It was the second big quake to hit Iran in a week. On April 9, a powerful 6.3 magnitude quake struck close to the Bushehr nuclear power station, killing 37 people, injuring 850 and devastating two villages.

Most of Iran's nuclear-related facilities are located in central Iran or its west, including Bushehr, its nuclear power plant, which sits on the Gulf coast. Iran says safety standards at Bushehr are good, but some Western experts have their doubts.

"It (the quake epicentre) is far from Bushehr and other nuclear-related facilities," Iran expert Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group think-tank said.

"However, the recent tremors are ominous reminders of how earthquake prone Iran's terrain truly is and how critical it is for the Iranian government to be prepared for a nuclear emergency."

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran's nuclear authority had informed it that there was no damage to the Bushehr power plant or other facilities.

Iran sits on major geological faultlines and has suffered several devastating earthquakes, including a 6.6 magnitude quake in 2003 that flattened the city of Bam, in Iran's far southeast, killing more than 25,000 people.

This quake also shook tall buildings in India's capital New Delhi, sending people running into the streets. People also evacuated buildings in Qatar and Dubai.

"I was working and my work station was shaking," said Viidhu Sekhri, 35, an underwriter at a New Delhi insurance company. "Then it was a bit shaky so we just rushed outside."

 

[sairaawais]

thanks God there is no severe damages in Pakistan

 

[Jango]

thanks God there is no severe damages in Pakistan

killed, hundreds injured. Majority of the city down to earth level...

 

[SOHEIL]

34 people have been killed in mashkhel

I know that car ... SAIPA 131 !!!

In Pakistan !?

 

[W.11]

I know that car ... SAIPA 131 !!!

In Pakistan !?

i dont think so

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

I don't know why I had a feeling the first I heard about this powerful earthquake that few would be killed and injured. It turned true , good for the affected countries and RIP to the deceased ones if there are any.

 

[Alpha1]

killed, hundreds injured. Majority of the city down to earth level...

which city? In pakistan?

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

I lived in Iran for 12 years and every year there was a major quake episode in my city from what I remeber. One time our whole house started moving and I thought my closet would come flying down on my head. 2 secs later my dad bolts in and grabs me. We slept outside in the street with the whole neighborhood that night. lol it was kind of neat.

Freaking plate tectonics

hey, at least there's a chance that the Iranian plate can break away and seperate from the sand countries around us.

Your damn plate is constantly getting on ours, tell it to to stay away..

 

[Al Bhatti]

Yesterday they were showing on TV that not all the equipments and computers in the Pakistani center which detects Earthquake work in any given day due to power outages.

So it is very much possible that a big quake may happen in Pakistan without the Pakistan earthquake centers even recording it or maybe only partial data will be available for forwarding the information to other disaster management authorities . Well do we really have disaster management authorities who work as they should work?

 

[Zarvan]

which city? In pakistan?

On Pakistan Iran Border and @nuclearpak that is not a city that is a very small town where destruction has taken place more than 40 people have died and around 100 are injured and some homes destroyed

May ALLAH protect us and forgive us all

 

[Zarvan]

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