On Saturday earthquakes in northwest Iran killed 180 people and injured 1,300 others, the head of the regional natural disasters centre, Khalil Saie, said. He was updating a death toll he had given minutes earlier to the Fars news agency in which he spoke of 146 killed.
The record of the earthquake registering 6.2 and 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale according to Tehran University's Seismological Centre, struck within minutes of each other, damaging scores of villages northeast of the city of Tabriz. The US Geological Survey, which monitors earth-quakes worldwide, ranked them as more powerful than that, at 6.4 and 6.3, respectively.
Thousands fled their homes and remained outdoors as at least 20 aftershocks hit the area.
Deputy Interior Minister Hassan Ghadami said 153 people had been killed and provincial official Khalil Sa'ie said some 1,300 had been injured, the semi official Fars news agency reported.
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The record of the earthquake registering 6.2 and 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale according to Tehran University's Seismological Centre, struck within minutes of each other, damaging scores of villages northeast of the city of Tabriz. The US Geological Survey, which monitors earth-quakes worldwide, ranked them as more powerful than that, at 6.4 and 6.3, respectively.
Thousands fled their homes and remained outdoors as at least 20 aftershocks hit the area.
Deputy Interior Minister Hassan Ghadami said 153 people had been killed and provincial official Khalil Sa'ie said some 1,300 had been injured, the semi official Fars news agency reported.
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