Iran-Iraq earthquake: What happened and why | Earthquakes News

Posted by Martina Birk on Saturday, January 20, 2024
A man walks past a collapsed building following an earthquake in Darbandikhan in Sulaimaniyah Governorate, Iraq [Ako Rasheed/Reuters]

Survivors sit in front of a destroyed house on the earthquake site in Sarpol-e-Zahab in western Iran [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]

Iranian victims of the earthquake mourn around the wreckage of their home in the city of Pole-Zahab, in Kermanshah Province. [Abedin Taherkenareh/EFE/EPA]

Iranians walking past the rubble of buildings in Kouik village near to Sarpol-e Zahab. [Atta Kenare/AFP]

Survivors sit in front of a destroyed house on the earthquake site in Sarpol-e-Zahab in western Iran [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]

Iranian victims of the earthquake mourn around the wreckage of their home in the city of Pole-Zahab, in Kermanshah Province. [Abedin Taherkenareh/EFE/EPA]

Iranians walking past the rubble of buildings in Kouik village near to Sarpol-e Zahab. [Atta Kenare/AFP]

Iranian victims of the earthquake mourn around the wreckage of their home in the city of Pole-Zahab, in Kermanshah Province. [Abedin Taherkenareh/EFE/EPA]

Iranians walking past the rubble of buildings in Kouik village near to Sarpol-e Zahab. [Atta Kenare/AFP]

Iranians walking past the rubble of buildings in Kouik village near to Sarpol-e Zahab. [Atta Kenare/AFP]

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7orjJmrGenaKWe6S7zGilnq%2BjZH9xfZZoaGpnYWt8qr7Ap2SiqpGmeqat0a2fqq2RoLJuw8eaq2agkaW9prrEnWSappRixKnF