{"id":3115,"date":"2020-12-20T12:35:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T12:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=141484"},"modified":"2020-12-20T12:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T12:35:57","slug":"magnitude-4-5-quake-strikes-northwestern-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/20\/magnitude-4-5-quake-strikes-northwestern-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 4.5 Quake Strikes Northwestern Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 struck northwestern Iran, near the border with Turkey, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The official news agency IRNA reported on December 20 that the quake struck the region of Qotur in Iran&#8217;s West Azerbaijan Province at a shallow depth of 5 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>IRNA did not report if the quake had caused any casualties or damage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n<div class=\"thumb\"><img alt=\"The quake struck the Iranian region of Qotur in West Azerbaijan Province. \" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.rferl.org\/40C3B0CB-41E9-4AFE-B736-9C53F0D32294_w250_r0.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"caption\">The quake struck the Iranian region of Qotur in West Azerbaijan Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A magnitude-5.7 earthquake in February in the same area on the Iran-Turkey border killed nine people in Turkey, injured more than a hundred in villages and towns in both countries, and caused buildings to collapse across southeastern Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Iran sits on top of major tectonic plates and experiences frequent seismic activity.<\/p>\n<p>A 7.3-magnitude quake in the western province of Kermanshah killed 620 people in November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, a 6.6-magnitude quake destroyed the ancient mud-brick city of Bam in Iran\u2019s southeast, killing at least 31,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s deadliest quake was a 7.4-magnitude tremor in 1990 that killed 40,000 people, injured 300,000 others, and left half a million homeless in the country&#8217;s north.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">Based on reporting by IRNA and Reuters<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/20\/magnitude-4-5-quake-strikes-northwestern-iran\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 struck northwestern Iran, near the border with Turkey, state media reported. The official news agency IRNA reported on December 20 that\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}