Latest news from Bandar Abbas earthquake: 99 injured and one dead
Two earthquakes measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale, two minutes apart, struck Hormozgan province on Sunday afternoon, blocking several roads and damaging more than 3,000 residential units.
The earthquake in Bandar Abbas on Sunday, November 13, has left 99 people injured and one dead. Two of the injured are reported to be in critical condition. A spokesman for Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences said that most of the injuries occurred due to anxiety caused by the earthquake or while fleeing and leaving the area.
The director of the earthquake department of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development's Research Center said that the Hormozgan Province Crisis Headquarters is on full alert.
According to the Director General of the Office of Crisis Management and Equipment of Machinery and Road Traffic of the Road Management and Transport Organization, the roads and highways have not suffered serious damage. He said: "Only at two points on the Bandar Abbas-Hajiabad axis, one in the area of the Hajiabad traffic police and the other in the southern opening of the Tangzag tunnel, we were forced to temporarily close this axis due to rockfall and debris on the road surface."
This comes while the Director General of Crisis Management of Hormozgan Governorate has said that “serious damage has been caused to some roads” and that landslides have also occurred in several cases. He also estimated that more than 3,000 residential homes have been damaged by 20 to 100 percent.
Intensity and epicenter of the earthquake
At 3:36 p.m. on Sunday, November 13, an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale occurred north of Bandar Abbas, and two minutes later, at 3:38 p.m., another earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale was recorded in the area.
There have been different reports about the intensity and epicenter of this earthquake.
The director of the earthquake department of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development's Research Center announced that the epicenter of the earthquake was 47 kilometers north of Bandar Abbas and its magnitude was 6.5, and said, "Based on the reports I received, this earthquake was also felt in Kerman."
The director of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, however, announced the magnitude of the earthquake as 6.4 on the Richter scale and its epicenter at a depth of 18 kilometers in the air near Qeshm Island, and said that the earthquake was also felt on Mount Geno.
According to him, the earthquake was also felt in Bandar Abbas, Minab, Rodan, and Qeshm Island.
The Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center reported the earthquake's magnitude as 6.5 on the Richter scale, which occurred 68 kilometers northwest of Bandar Abbas.
According to the Emirates Meteorological Center, aftershocks from the earthquake in southern Iran were also felt in several areas of the Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Al-Arabiya Channel reported that a number of citizens in some cities in the eastern regions of Saudi Arabia also felt mild tremors.
Source: DW
