Earthquake Kills Over 100 at Iran-Iraq Border<br />12, 2017<br />TEHRAN — An earthquake struck the border region of Iran<br />and Iraq on Sunday, killing over 100 people in Iran, the country’s National Medical Emergency Service reported, according to the state English-language television news channel, Press TV.<br />The quake, which struck shortly before 10 p.m., was centered about 19 miles outside Halabja, in eastern Iraq (about 125 miles northeast of Baghdad)<br />and had a magnitude of 7.3, according to the United States Geological Survey.<br />In the provincial capital of Sulaimaniyah, the second-largest city in the Iraqi Kurdish region,<br />residents described feeling heavy tremors but said there was no notable building damage.<br />The head of Iraq’s water resource management, Hassan Janani, reported<br />that the Darbandikhan dam, also in Sulaimaniyah, had sustained some damage, although his teams did not believe that residents were in any danger.<br />In Iraq, emergency workers said at least six Iraqis living in remote villages in Sulaimaniyah Province, near the Iranian border, had died.<br />In Baghdad, the tremors were strong enough to shake bookcases<br />and wall-mounted television screens, sending residents in several neighborhoods out into the street.
