Tremor shakes Amol in Mazandaran province
Sari, Mazandaran Prov, Sept 1, IRNA -- A tremor measuring 3.4 degrees
on the open-ended Richter scale jolted the district of Baijan,
south of the city of Amol, in this northern province on Sunday
morning, the provincial seismological network reported here on Sunday.
According to the network, the tremor occurred at 03:10 hours
local time on Sunday (22:40 GMT on Saturday).
The epicenter of the quake was reported to be in the district of
Baijan, 55 km south of the city of Amol, the seismological network
further said.
No report has yet been received on any casualty or material damage
that may have been caused by the quake that hit this province
beside the Caspian Sea.
Iran lies in the world's so-called "earthquake belt" and
receives a number of tremors of varying intensities every year.
In 1990, a seven-plus degree earthquake hit another Caspian
province, Gilan, neighboring Mazandaran province, as well as the
northwestern province of Zanjan during which thousands of people in
the two provinces died.
Quake hits Poledokhtar in Lorestan province
Khorramabad, Lorestan prov., Sept 2, IRNA -- An earthquake measuring
4.5 on the open-ended Richter scale jolted Poledokhtar, Lorestan
province, at 09:03 hrs. local time (04:33 GMT) on Sunday morning.
The Seismography Center at Tehran University's Geophysics
Institute said the epicenter of the tremor was located north west of
Poledokhtar.
No reports on probable death tolls or injured people have been
so far been reported.
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