Its magnitude was 7.3 on the Richter scale. As a result of a natural disaster, killed at least six people. The number of wounded increased to 138.
According to Sky News Arabia, the epicenter of the tremors was 32 kilometers north of the Iranian city of Sarpol-e-Zahab and a hundred kilometers south-east of the city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraq. The hearth lay at a depth of ten kilometers.
Recall as reported URA-Inform, in the South Pacific in the New Caledonia on October 31, 2017 there was a large underwater earthquake of magnitude 7 points. The earthquake, the epicenter of which was located at a depth of 15 kilometers below the seabed, did not cause a tsunami.