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21 injured after 5.1 magnitude earthquake jolts Iran

Earthquake tremors were felt in Pole Jahab of Iran’s Western Province, Karamanshah on Saturday. In which at least 21 people were injured. Earthquake intensity was 5.1 measured on Richter scale. According to the Xinhua report, quoted in Iran’s Quake Science Center, the center of the earthquake was at a depth of eight kilometers, 34.458 degrees north latitude and 454.791 degrees east in the country.

However, teams reached the summit and suburban towns, said there was no casualty in the earthquake. It is noteworthy that in earlier, earthquake tremors of 7.3 magnitudes were felt in western Iran in November, in which more than 600 people were killed and more than nine thousand people were injured.

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