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03-31-2006, 05:40 AM
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6504
Powerful earthquakes leave more than 50 dead in Iran
Tehran, Iran, Mar. 31 – More than a dozen earthquakes which struck in the early hours of Friday in Iran’s western province of Lorestan flattened hundreds of towns and villages and left some 50 people dead and at least 876 people injured, state television reported.
The first quake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale struck at approximately 7.47 pm on Thursday. The most powerful of the quakes measuring 6.0 struck in the city of Doroud as people were asleep in their beds at 4.47 am on Friday. Another quake with a magnitude of 5.1 came minutes later.
Powerful earthquakes leave more than 50 dead in Iran
Tehran, Iran, Mar. 31 – More than a dozen earthquakes which struck in the early hours of Friday in Iran’s western province of Lorestan flattened hundreds of towns and villages and left some 50 people dead and at least 876 people injured, state television reported.
The first quake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale struck at approximately 7.47 pm on Thursday. The most powerful of the quakes measuring 6.0 struck in the city of Doroud as people were asleep in their beds at 4.47 am on Friday. Another quake with a magnitude of 5.1 came minutes later.