Project Location | Middle East, Iran, Kermanshah
Production Date | 2018-11-19
At least 452 people were killed and thousands injured in Iran as a result of a 7.3 magnitude earthquake. On Sunday November 12th, a powerful earthquake struck near the border of Iran and Iraq. Iranians rushed aid from all over the country to support the survivors. despite such catastrophic event , life is still going on in those areas. Authorities in Kermanshah province in western Iran, the hardest-hit area, said Monday afternoon that 328 people had died in that province alone, most in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab.
7.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Kermanshah Province of Iran at 22:20 on 12 November. More than 400 people have been killed and thousands more are reported to be injured.
The province of Kermanshah was the most affected area along with the cities of Halabja, Iraq and Sarpol-e Zahab being the hardest-hit. More than half of the Iranian casualties were from Sarpol-e-Zahab and the Ezgeleh District, which have a combined population of over 30,000. 630 people died. More than 7,000 others were injured. In Sarpol-e Zahab, the hospital was damaged and at least 142 people were killed, many who had lived in social housing complexes built by former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Nearly 5,000 people in Kermanshah province are still unable to return to their homes two years after the quake struck. Some are living in shipping containers converted into makeshift dwellings. Others are in unmarked white tents bought from local stores or distributed by emergency responders in the early days of the crisis.
Iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world. More than 180,000 people have been killed by the country’s quakes in the last century, and the frequency has increased sharply in recent years.
