{"id":20110,"date":"2021-04-19T09:32:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T05:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=20110"},"modified":"2021-04-19T09:32:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T05:02:58","slug":"magnitude-5.9-earthquake-strikes-southwestern-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/20110\/magnitude-5.9-earthquake-strikes-southwestern-iran","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude \u06f5.\u06f9 earthquake strikes southwestern Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 A magnitude 5.9 earthquake jolted southwestern Bushehr province on Sunday, according to the Iranian Seismological Center.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake struck at 11:11 a.m. local time at a depth of 10 kilometers near the border with Fars province.<\/p>\n<p>Five were injured but no fatalities have so far been reported in the aftermath of the quake.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve other quakes measuring 3-4.5 on the Richter scale shook the area within 4 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Some 6 villages in Genaveh city have suffered 20 to 30 percent damage due to the earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian plateau is located in a very seismically active region of the world and is known not only for its major catastrophic earthquakes but also for the disasters relating to natural hazards, especially earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>About 2 percent of the earthquakes of the world occur in Iran but more than 6 percent of the victims of the world earthquakes during the 20th century are reported from Iranian earthquakes. This shows the high level of vulnerability in Iran, according to Mehdi Zare, a professor of engineering seismology.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, an earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale shook western Kordestan province on April 7. And a magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred in northeastern Golestan province in September 2020, which left 34 injured.<br \/>\nFB\/MG<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 A magnitude 5.9 earthquake jolted southwestern Bushehr province on Sunday, according to the Iranian Seismological Center. The earthquake struck at 11:11 a.m. local time at a depth of 10 kilometers near the border with Fars province. Five were injured but no fatalities have so far been reported in the aftermath of the quake. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}