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5.3-magnitude earthquake in Iran’s Kurdish region leaves at least 38 casualties
Kurdistan24



ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – An earthquake in Iranian Kurdistan’s (Rojhilat) Kermanshan Province on Sunday left at least 38 people injured, local media reported.

The 5.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the western Iranian region at 1:05 p.m. (local time), a report from the seismography center affiliated with Tehran University Geophysics Institute revealed.

The tremor’s epicenter was located at a depth of eight kilometers underground near the town of Sarpol-e Zahab in Kermanshan.

Read more at: http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/90f547c8-ec34-45d9-a3d7-930eae3613e2

The picture looks like damage was done, 5.3 of course, isn't nearly as high as some recent quakes we hear about... but I have no idea what one would feel like.