Sunday night"s earthquake struck near Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran"s Kermanshah province The earthquake was felt in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, and various provinces in Iraq, according to reports BAGHDAD: A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck western Iran near its border with Iraq on Sunday night, with Baghdad and other Iraqi provinces feeling the tremors. It struck in the same area where another quake las killed over 600 people. Iran said on Sunday that no fatalities had been reported but that about 200 people were injured after an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck near its western border with Iraq, Iranian state TV reported. Sunday night"s earthquake struck near Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran"s Kermanshah province, which suffered half of the casualties from last year"s quake and where some still remain homeless. State television in Iran reported the quake. Authorities said six rescue teams were immediately deployed after the quake stopped. Morteza Salimi of Iran"s Red Crescent told state TV that since the area was reconstructed after the last year"s quake, officials hope there won"t be casualties. The earthquake had a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), making it very shallow. Shallow earthquakes have broader damage. The earthquake was felt in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, and various provinces in Iraq, according to reports. Iran is located on major seismic faults and experiences an earthquake per day on average. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam in southern Iran, killing 26,000 people. Last year"s earthquake near Sarpol-e Zahab, a predominantly Kurdish town, had a magnitude of 7.3.