50 feared dead in earthquakes

Tehran, Iran  - At slightest 50 individuals kicked the bucket and an alternate 400 were harmed in two in number quakes that shocked northwestern Iran Saturday close to the city of Tabriz, the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency said.

The primary tremor, an extent 6.4, hit at 4:53 p.m. neighborhood time, as per the U.s. Topographical Survey. Minutes after the fact a second shudder, measuring 6.3, struck.


The topographical overview recorded five in number repercussions.

Inhabitants of Tabriz and in addition the adjacent towns of Ahar, Marand and Jolfa felt the earth trembling, the authority Islamic Republic News Agency

reported.

Starting reports said a few structures in Tabriz endured structural harm and force lines were down. Phone lines were down in Ahar. The degree of the harm was all the while being surveyed.

Powers dispatched salvage groups to Tabriz and Ahar and to the influenced towns of Khormaloo and Harif, the semi-official Islamic Students News Agency said.

Iran sits on major faultlines and has been inclined to wrecking tremors.

In 2003, 30,000 individuals passed on in a tremor in Bam in southeastern Kerman area. In 1990, around 50,000 were executed in a shudder that hit close to the Caspian Sea.