On October 6, local time, Mohammad Sadiq Motamedian, Governor of Iran's West Azerbaijan, said that the earthquake that occurred in the province on October 5 actually affected three of Khoy, Selmas and Chapa. Cities, of which Hoy was the worst hit.
According to the latest statistics, no one was killed in the earthquake, but 1,127 people were injured, most of them minor injuries, of which 113 were being treated in hospital.
Motamedian said that the biggest impact of the earthquake was the destruction of local houses. According to statistics, 112 rural houses in the province completely collapsed and more than 500 houses were damaged.
Motamedian said rescue teams arrived in the area and provided relief in the first hour after the earthquake, and emergency camps have been set up in the worst-hit villages. In addition to distributing tents, the local government is considering where necessary. Build some temporary shanties in the area.
According to the report of the Iran Earthquake Monitoring Center, at 3:51 a.m. on October 5, a magnitude 5.4 earthquake occurred in the Khoy region of West Azerbaijan Province, with a focal depth of 10 kilometers, followed by dozens of aftershocks, 6 of which were above magnitude 3.
On the evening of the 5th, Iranian President Raisi ordered the local government to provide assistance to those affected by the earthquake, and to provide temporary housing for those whose houses were damaged, trying to rebuild their homes before the onset of winter.
(Headquarters reporter Wang Wei)