6.0 Magnitude Quake Jolts Eastern Iran
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The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre registered a shallow-quake 65 kilometers northeast Iranian city of Kerman.
A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Iran on Friday, weeks after a devastating quake claimed more than 500 lives, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre.
The shallow-quake was registered at 02:32 UTC. Its epicenter lied 65 kilometers northeast of Kerman, populated by over 500,000, and some 489 kilometers east of Shiraz, which has a population of 1.2 million.
The agencies also registered a 5.0-magnitude aftershock in the same area minutes later.
A massive earthquake which struck eastern Iraq and western Iran on November 12 claimed the lives of at least more than 500 people and injured over 8,000.
According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, the earthquake consisted of two seismic events one after another with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.3 on the Richter scale.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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