A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck northwestern Iran near the border with Turkey on Saturday evening, killing three people and injuring 816. :14 GMT).
IRNA quotes West Azerbaijan Governor Mohammad Sadiq Motamedyan as saying: “As a result of this earthquake, three people were killed and 816 people were injured.” Interior Minister Ahmed Vahidi left for Khoi to monitor the situation, the agency said. Iran sits on several tectonic plates and experiences intense seismic activity.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 struck on January 18 near Khoi, injuring hundreds of people. In February 2020, nine people died in a 5.7 magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey, on the border with Iran, and affected the upper village of Habash, in the west of the country. But the deadliest earthquake in Iran’s modern history was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that hit the north of the country in 1990, killing 40,000 people, injuring 30,000 and displacing half a million people.
