Iranian rescue workers handed out blankets , food and water Monday to survivors of a powerful earthquake on a Gulf island that killed 10 people and forced villagers to spend the night in tents .
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Iranian rescue workers handed out blankets , food and water Monday to survivors of a powerful earthquake on a Gulf island that killed 10 people and forced villagers to <m> spend </m> the night in tents .
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Iran Villagers Shelter In Tents After Killer Quake
Nov 28 , 2005
Iranian rescue workers handed out blankets , food and water Monday to survivors of a powerful earthquake on a Gulf island that killed 10 people and forced villagers to <m> spend </m> the night in tents .
Power was restored to the afflicted villages on the Gulf island of Qeshm after a blackout caused by the quake , which struck on Sunday with a force of about 6 . 0 on the Richter scale .
"We have distributed the needed tents , blankets , fresh water and food to survivors , " the governor - general of Hormouzgan province , Abdolreza Sheikholeslami , told state television .
He said 30 of the 80 wounded remained in hospital after the tremor , which destroyed or damaged an estimated 1 , 500 mudbrick houses in about 15 villages on the island and was felt across the Gulf in the United Arab Emirates .
"Most of the buildings in the villages are not safe to live in any more .
However , by nightfall all those who need tents will be provided with one , " the head of the provincial natural disaster service , Massoud Dalman , told the television .
Qeshm island governor Heydar Alishbandi told AFP that a total of 10 people had been killed and that the death toll was not expected to rise further .
"Around 1 , 000 people are housed temporarily in tents and another 2 , 000 are waiting to be housed , " he said , adding that the weather was warm with temperatures of about 28 degrees Celsius ( 82 degrees Fahrenheit ) .
"We are not facing shortages and the relief operations are going smoothly . "
Some panicked residents of the island , which is situated off the coast from the large port city of Bandar Abbas and is home to about 100 , 000 people , slept outside after a second quake jolted the area several hours later .
The rocky and barren island was hit almost two years after the southeastern city of Bam - - situated 300 kilometers ( 190 miles ) to the north - - was destroyed in a quake that killed tens of thousands of people .
State news agency IRNA quoted the head of Qeshm's free - trade zone , Ali Rezapour , as saying the quake caused damage estimated at around 54 million dollars , with 50 schools and about 1 , 500 houses rendered unsafe .
Qeshm , located 1 , 150 kilometers ( 700 miles ) southeast of Tehran , has a busy commercial and fishing port and is also a popular weekend sunshine getaway for Iranian tourists .
Airport chief Ali Naghavi was quoted by IRNA as saying that operations had resumed after being halted on Sunday .
The island's main town , also called Qeshm , was undamaged .
The most affected villages were identified as Gabardin , Tonban , Karvan , Tourian and Khaldin - - all situated in the less densely populated west of the island .
Iran sits astride several major faults in the earth's crust , and is prone to frequent earthquakes .
In February , a quake measuring 6 . 4 on the Richter scale hit the southern town of Zarand , killing 612 people and wounding around 1 , 400 .
In December 2003 , the southeastern city of Bam was razed by a 6 . 7 degree quake that left more than 31 , 000 people dead .
Mehdi Zareh , the head of Iran's Seismic Research Center , said there was no tsunami risk from the latest quake .
"Because the Persian Gulf is not very deep , a tsunami is not expected , " he told the student news agency ISNA .