Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://reliefweb.int/report/iran-islamic-republic/information-bulletin-n-1-iran-quakeA magnitude 5.9 earthquake on the Richter scale hit, Tazehabad a city and the capital of Salas-e Babajani County, Kermanshah Province, Iran, on Sunday August 26, 2018 at 02:43 local time, killing 2 people and injuring 267. The epicenter of the earthquake was at 34.63o degrees north and 46.22o degrees east at the depth of 8 km.Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:48:00 +0200reliefWeb-73835e6955042d68eecc50ceca7d868creliefWebenNaturalDisastersRed CrescentIslamic RepublicRed Crescent Society20180828084800https://www.newsweek.com/59-magnitude-earthquake-hit-close-iran-iraq-border-1091649An earthquake rattled Iran’s Kermanshah province early Sunday and left hundreds injured. There are plans for at least five rescue teams to search for casualties after the 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck close to the Iran-Iraq border, near the city Tazehabad, the Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.Tue, 28 Aug 2018 04:23:00 +0200newsweek-c6006d5e7bc40394dad2684abe6a1bf2newsweeken35.7745 51.4477NaturalDisastersIRNAIslamic RepublicNews Agency20180828042300https://www.newsweek.com/59-magnitude-earthquake-hit-close-iran-iraq-border-1091649An earthquake rattled Iran’s Kermanshah province early Sunday and left hundreds injured. There are plans for at least five rescue teams to search for casualties after the 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck close to the Iran-Iraq border, near the city Tazehabad, the Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.Tue, 28 Aug 2018 04:18:00 +0200newsweek-USA-c6006d5e7bc40394dad2684abe6a1bf2newsweek-USAen35.7745 51.4477NaturalDisastersIRNAIslamic RepublicNews Agency20180828041800https://reliefweb.int/report/iran-islamic-republic/iran-earthquake-gdacs-usgs-irsc-iranian-red-crescent-local-media-echo-0An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 M at a depth of 10 km occurred in the western Iranian region of Kermanshah on 25 August at 22.13 UTC. The epicentre was located 6 km south-west of the village of Nesfeh Kar and 26 km south-west of Javanrud city. The US Geological Survey's PAGER earthquake monitoring....Mon, 27 Aug 2018 12:37:00 +0200reliefWeb-96495c0aa7136a6e476994a9e29cb390reliefWeben35.7745 51.4477NaturalDisastersUS Geological SurveyRed CrescentIslamic Republic20180827123700http://www.euronews.com/2018/08/26/strong-earthquake-hits-northwest-iran-killing-2-and-wounding-241At least two people were killed and at least 100 were injured when a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck in western Iran Kermanshah province early Sunday, said the general directorate of Kermanshah Province, as reported by Iran's government news agency IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency).Mon, 27 Aug 2018 04:23:00 +0200euronews-en-9c71d1dbac299d14408c1b6638365ad1euronews-enen33.2286562085057 44.3569305989387NaturalDisastersU.S. Geological SurveyIRNAIslamic RepublicNews Agency20180827042300https://reliefweb.int/report/iran-islamic-republic/western-iran-quake-injury-toll-rises-241-2-dead-0Kermanshah, Aug 26, IRNA – The number of the dead and injured people by the Sunday morning 5.9-magnitude earthquake in western Iran raised to 241 and two respectively, Head of Kermanshah medical emergency center said. Most of the injured were treated outpatient and were later released from hospital,....Mon, 27 Aug 2018 01:40:00 +0200reliefWeb-d92ba6c0f146142040415f28dfc89e24reliefWeben35.7745 51.4477NaturalDisastersIRNAIslamic RepublicNews Agency20180827014000http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2018/08/27/2003699296A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck western Iran near the border with Iraq early yesterday, killing two people and injuring at least 310, officials said. The shallow quake hit 26km southwest of the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah Province, the US Geological Survey said, near the site of a powerful quake last year that killed hundreds.Sun, 26 Aug 2018 19:07:00 +0200taipeitimes-c5304ba43b97958b243ac3285e952421taipeitimesen33.334 44.3978NaturalDisastersReza MahmoudianUS Geological SurveyHassan RouhaniIRNARed CrescentIslamic RepublicNews AgencyMohammad RezaMohammadMahmoud Ahmadinejad20180826190700https://reliefweb.int/report/iran-islamic-republic/red-crescent-teams-rush-kermanshah-earthquakeKERMANSHAH, Aug. 26 (IRCS) _ Red Crescent has dispatched operational teams to earthquake-affected regions of Kermanshah province, which has so far killed two. A 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit Tazeh-abad city, western province of Kermanshah at 2:43 a.m. local time on August 26. The quake happened at the 8-kilometer depth of the ground surface.Sun, 26 Aug 2018 09:05:00 +0200reliefWeb-b78b34116382d7d86ceabf55e833bec8reliefWeben34.4332203886459 46.6913597980735NaturalDisastersRed CrescentIslamic RepublicMorteza SalimiRed Crescent Society20180826090500https://www.news4jax.com/news/international/61magnitude-earthquake-rattles-western-iran(CNN) - At least two people were killed and at least 100 were injured when a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck in western Iran's Kermanshah province early Sunday, said the general directorate of Kermanshah Province, as reported by Iran's government news agency IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency).Sun, 26 Aug 2018 04:49:00 +0200news4jax-01a16af9d25851005c7121f39c263244news4jaxen35.7745 51.4477NaturalDisastersUS Geological SurveyIRNAIslamic RepublicNews AgencyEmergencyPress TV20180826044900https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/international/61magnitude-earthquake-rattles-western-iran(CNN) - At least two people were killed and at least 100 were injured when a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck in western Iran's Kermanshah province early Sunday, said the general directorate of Kermanshah Province, as reported by Iran's government news agency IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency).Sun, 26 Aug 2018 04:30:00 +0200clickondetroit-01a16af9d25851005c7121f39c263244clickondetroiten35.7745 51.4477NaturalDisastersUS Geological SurveyIRNAIslamic RepublicNews AgencyEmergencyPress TV20180826043000