{"id":1112,"date":"2010-12-21T11:21:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T11:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2010-12-21T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T11:21:19","slug":"quake-in-southeastern-iran-kills-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/12\/21\/1112\/","title":{"rendered":"Quake in southeastern Iran kills 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"zelzal-iran\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/zelzal-iran.jpg\" width=\"263\" height=\"187\" \/>Seven people have been killed in an earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale that struck Iran&#8217;s southeastern province of Kerman. \u201cConsidering the dimensions of the damage, the death toll is expected to rise,\u201d IRNA quoted Kerman Governor General Esmail Najjar as saying on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The powerful quake occurred at 10:12 p.m. local time (1842 GMT) on Monday, IRIB reported late on Monday.<br \/>The epicenter was in the town of Hosseinabad, 28.6 degrees north latitude and 59.1 degrees east longitude, at a depth of five kilometers, the Iranian Seismological Center said on its website.<br \/>Najjar added that some of the injured have been rushed to local hospitals as emergency efforts get underway to help those trapped under the rubble.<br \/>Most of the rural areas in the quake-hit region use adobe, which has a tendency to crumble in earthquakes, as construction material.<br \/>The Kerman governor also said that the infrastructure around the quake&#8217;s epicenter has remained intact.<br \/>He noted that the strong tremor was felt as far away as the southern province of Hormozgan, which lies on the Persian Gulf.<br \/>There have been six aftershocks so far, with the biggest measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale.<br \/>The province of Kerman has 18 active fault lines.<br \/>The quake was also felt in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, and in the cities of Zahedan, Bam, Khash, and Iranshahr, the Fars news agency reported.<br \/>Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. It experiences at least one slight earthquake every day on average.<br \/>The deadliest earthquake to hit Iran in recent years happened on December 26, 2003, when a 6.6 magnitude quake struck Bam city and the surrounding areas in Kerman province.<br \/>The destructive earthquake left 26,271 people dead and 30,000 injured.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Press TV<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven people have been killed in an earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale that struck Iran&#8217;s southeastern province of Kerman. \u201cConsidering the dimensions of the damage, the death toll is expected to rise,\u201d IRNA quoted Kerman Governor General Esmail Najjar as saying on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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