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Quake Hits Southern Iran

August 6, 2010

TEHRAN (FNA)-

An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale hit an area near the town of Ahl in Fars province, southern Iran, on Friday morning.

The Seismological center of Fars province affiliated to the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University registered the quake at 11:29 hours local time (0659 GMT).

The epicenter of the quake was located in an area 53.83 degrees in longitude and 27.04 degrees in latitude.

There are yet no reports on the number of possible casualties or damage to properties by the quake.

Iran is criss-crossed with fault lines and is regularly hit by earthquakes, experiencing at least one slight tremor every day on average.

The worst in recent times hit Bam in southeastern Kerman province in December 2003, killing 31,000 people - about a quarter of its population - and destroying the city's ancient mud-built citadel.

The deadliest quake in the country was in June 1990 and measured 7.7 on the Richter scale. About 37,000 people were killed and more than 100,000 injured in the northwestern provinces of Gilan and Zanjan. It devastated 27 towns and about 1,870 villages.

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