Iranian media reports say an earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale shook Khoy County in northwestern Iranian Province of West Azerbaijan Wednesday morning while the tremor was also felt in the nearby counties early morning.
Citing Khoy governor Zabihollah Kazemi, IRNA reported on October 5 that although the number of those who had been injured by the quake was large, they were treated soon as their injuries were minor, the governor noted.
Zabihollah Kazemi reportedly went on to say that estimation indicates that the earthquake has damaged 200 housing units but the damages have not been serious.
The quake caused more damages to residential units in the villages, he added.
According to the Seismological Center affiliated to Institute of Geophysics of Tehran University, the early morning quake occurred at 03:51 am local time (0021 GMT).
Further, 20 aftershocks followed the main earthquake just 10 minutes later.
Reuters reported on October 5 that Mohammad Hassan Nami, head of the state crisis management agency, was quoted by the official news agency IRNA as saying, "This earthquake has so far left about 580 injured and fortunately no one lost their life in this incident."
Meanwhile, Teller Report said on October 6 that according to the latest statistics, no one was killed in the earthquake, but 1,127 people were injured, most of them sustained minor injuries; 113 of them were being treated in hospital.
Iran lies on major seismic faults and experiences one earthquake a day on average. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam, killing 26,000 people. A magnitude 7 earthquake that struck western Iran in 2017 killed more than 600 people and injured more than 9,000.
