{"id":3653,"date":"2018-08-27T16:06:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2018-08-27T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:06:18","slug":"two-killed-241-others-injured-after-5-9-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-western-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/08\/27\/two-killed-241-others-injured-after-5-9-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-western-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed, 241 others injured after 5.9 magnitude earthquake rattles western Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least two people were killed and 241 others injured when a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck in western Iran’s Kermanshah province early Sunday, government news agency IRNA reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The epicenter of the quake was 6 miles from Tazehabad and 19 miles from Javanrud. Both cities are close to the Iran-Iraq border. The earthquake struck at a depth of some 10 kilometers (6 miles).<\/div>\n
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Iran’s Emergency and Natural Disaster Agency told state-run Press TV that five rescue teams have been sent to the area.<\/div>\n
Press TV, an English-language television station in Iran, tweeted that people were rushed to the hospital, though there were no immediate casualty figures.<\/div>\n
Residents in Baghdad, in neighboring Iraq, told CNN they felt the capital city shake. Baghdad is 342 kilometers, or more than 200 miles, from the Iran border.<\/div>\n
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“Oh my gosh. My furniture moved across the floor,” one resident said. “I had to call and check all my relatives were OK.”<\/div>\n
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“Literally, the bed was shaking,” another said.<\/div>\n
The earthquake was first reported at 6.1 magnitude by the US Geological Survey.<\/div>\n
More than 400 people were killed when\u00a0a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the Iran-Iraq border in November 2017.<\/div>\n
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CNN<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least two people were killed and 241 others injured when a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck in western Iran’s Kermanshah province early Sunday, government news agency IRNA reported. The epicenter of the quake was 6 miles from Tazehabad and 19 miles from Javanrud. Both cities are close to the Iran-Iraq border. The earthquake struck at a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}