Earthquake hits on the Iran–Iraq border
An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.3 occurred on the Iran–Iraq border. It was felt as far away as Israel and the United Arab Emirates. With at least 630 people killed, mostly in Iraq's Kurdish Halabja area and the Iranian Kurdish dominated province of Kermanshah, and more than 8,100 injured, as well as many more unaccounted for, it was the deadliest earthquake of 2017.