Officials said over 500 people were killed on Sunday night in Iran and Iraq and over 7,000 injured as a 7.3-earthquake hit the border region.

According to Iran’s Press TV the epicenter of the quake, which occurred at around 09:18 pm local time on Sunday, was 32 kilometers south of the Iraqi city of Halabja, in Iraqi Kurdistan, and just across the border from Iran, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

In this episode of Jahan Nama, host Massoud Malik discusses the topic with Iranian researcher Waheeda Mehrpour