IRNA Commander of Brigade 71 of the Army Brigadier Kiumars Jafari said on Monday that various divisions of the Iranian army were deployed to different flood-hit regions in the city of Sare-polezahab to conduct rescue operations in the massive flood.
Speaking to IRNA, he said army forces equipped with mechanical instruments have been deployed in ...
IRNA - An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale shook Sar Pol-e Zahab in western Iranian province of Kermanshah early Wednesday.
According to the Seismological Center of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University, the tremor occurred at 03:20 hours local time (23:50 GMT) at the depth of 10 km underground.
The epicenter of the quake ...
Al-Monitor - Sarpol-e Zahab was the city hardest hit by a devastating earthquake that rocked most of Iran's western Kermanshah province Nov. 12, 2017, killing over 600 people. It is also where children still play a game where they simulate the quake by making the horrible sounds and frightening each other in the rubble an indication of just how entangled ...
Al-Monitor - "People will be the supreme judges," wrote Ai Daei at the end of a lengthy post on his Instagram page, which is followed by some 3.6 million people. The strongly worded critical post came after the legendary former soccer player and current coach was summoned by the Iranian judiciary for "explanations" regarding public donations wired ...
IRNA - An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale rocked Sarpol-e Zahab in western Province of Kermanshah early on Monday.
According to the Seismological Center of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University, the tremor occurred at 4:23 hours local time (23:57 GMT) in an area located at 34.48 degrees latitude and 45.75 degrees longitude and ...
Tasnim A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck Sarpol-e Zahab in Kermanshah Province on Sunday, leaving 23 people wounded, a provincial official said.
Todays earthquake has left 23 people injured up to this moment, who received treatment as outpatients, Maziar Tahmasebi, a senior health and medical official in Kermanshah province, told Tasnim on Sunday....
IRNA A local official said on Tuesday that so far over 1,500 aftershocks have been registered following a 7.3-magnitude earthquake in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab, in western Province of Kermanshah on November 12, 2017.
Talking to IRNA, Head of Kermanshah Seismology Network Farhad Forouzi said the aftershocks were registered until 10:00 local time ...
IRNA - The death toll of the November 12 deadly earthquake in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah has risen to 620, Iranian Legal Medicine Organization announced on Monday.
All 41 dead who were identified today were from Sarpol-e Zahab.
The number of the dead in western cities is as follow:
Sarpol-e Zahab: 559 people, 1 yet unidentified
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Tasnim | Mahmoud Hosseini: A 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Irans western province of Kermanshah on Sunday night has killed more than 470 people, inflicting heavy damages on the rural areas near the city of Sarpol-e Zahab.
The New York Times | THOMAS ERDBRINK: In Kuik-e Hasan, a village of 800 people in the foothills of the Zagros mountains, Moadel Yari, 35, stood biting his lip as he recited the names of his lost relatives: Amin, Hajar, Toba, Hajin, Abdellah, Boshra, Ozve, Somron.
Iranians living near the border with Iraq are accustomed to earthquakes. They live ...
President.ir: President offered condolence to the families who lost their loved ones in the earthquake and wished swift recovery for the injured and said: "The government will grant long-term loans and ex gratia payments for rebuilding damaged homes and help the lives of the injured and those whose homes were in damaged".
Dr Hassan Rouhani appreciated ...
Reuters - Iranian officials said there was little chance of finding more survivors from the earthquake that shook parts of western Iran on Sunday, killing at least 450 people, and rescue operations had now been called off, state television said on Tuesday.
A man gestures inside a damaged building following an earthquake in Sarpol-e Zahab county ...
Tasnim | Erfan Kouchari: Thousands of residents in Sarpol-e Zahab, a city in Irans western province of Kermanshah hit worst by a massive earthquake on November 12, have been made homeless and lost their relatives as people in the quake-hit areas experienced a cold night.
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