TEHRAN Graham Glasgow Black Jersey , Nov. 13 (Xinhua) — The quake death toll of Iranians rose to 445 one day after a powerful earthquake hit the Iran-Iraq border area as more are still buried in ruins, local media reported on Monday.
At least 445 people have been killed and 7,156 others injured in the quake measuring 7.3 magnitude, the reports said.
The quake’s epicenter was located approximately 32 km south of the city of Halabja in a remote mountainous region of eastern Iraq, some 200 km north-east of Baghdad and 400 km west of Tehran, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
The quake hit the area at 9:18 p.m. local time (0018 GMT) Taylor Decker Black Jersey , when many people would have been at home, the U.S. Geological Survey said.