8 injured as 4.7-magnitude quake hits W Iran
An earthquake measuring 4.7 on Richter scale has jolted a western Iranian county, injuring eight people.
The quake took place in Nahavand County of the western Iranian province of Hamedan at 05:34 local time (01:04 GMT) on Friday, IRNA reported.
Five of the casualties received slight injuries, while the rest had to be hospitalized, said Habib Ma’soumi, the head of Hamedan Medical Sciences University’s Center for Emergency Services.
The epicenter was about two kilometers (1.2 miles) to the county’s east at a depth of two kilometers, said Mohammad-Taqi Shahbazi of the Seismological Center of Tehran University’s Geophysics Institute.
Relief teams were dispatched to the site, examining its aged structures and the Kouhani Village, which lies at the center of the affected area.
The tremor did not cause considerable material damage, Shahbazi added.
Two aftershocks have followed, he said, noting that the magnitude of the original quake brought the distraught public onto the streets.
Nahavand lies on an earthquake-prone belt, and has been hit by relatively strong temblors over the past years.
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