By: EFE
By: EFE
At least one person died and eight others were injured in two earthquakes of 6.4 and 6.3 degrees s on the Richter scale that have shaken southern Iran today, where some areas have been left without electricity and telephone.
The earthquakes occurred in the early afternoon in southern Iran, with its epicenter in Hormozgan province, and caused hundreds of people to take to the streets .
At least five replicas, the largest of them 4.5 degrees , occurred in the hours following the initial tremors .
So far one death and eight injured due to the fall of a lamp post in the city of Bandar Abas, capital of Hormozgan, reported Fateme Nouruzian, spokeswoman for the University of Medical Sciences of the province.
“It was horrible, two earthquakes in a row. Four poles have fallen only in our area and others in the Suru neighborhood, people are scared and in the streets “, Ebrahim Yalali, a neighbor of Bandar Abas, told Efe.
As a result of the tremors, the electricity and the telephone have been cut off in some areas of this city .
The tremors are felt in the neighboring provinces of Fars, Kerman, Bushehr, and on the Kish and Qeshm islands, as well as in the United Arab Emirates and Dubai.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisí ordered the First Vice President Mohamad Mojber to travel to Bandar Abas to monitor the situation.
Iran is very active seismic since the country is located on the border of several tectonic plates and is crossed by several faults .
In November 2017 an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 caused 620 dead and more than 12, 000 wounded in the north-western province of Kermanshah, while in December 2003 close to 30, 000 people perished in another in the southern town of Bam .
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