Tehran, Oct 9, IRNA -- An earthquake measuring 4 degrees on the
open-ended Richter scale shook the city of Kahnouj in the southeastern
province of Kerman on Saturday.
According to the seismological base of Tehran University's
Geophysics Institute, the tremor occurred at 09:38 hours a.m. local
time (0608 GMT).
There are no reports of any damage to property caused by the
quake.
Two earthquakes measuring 5.2 and 4.6 degrees on the Richter scale
shook the vicinity of Jiroft in Kerman province on Wednesday and
Thursday morning.
Iran is situated on some of the world's most active seismic fault
lines and quakes of varying magnitudes are of usual occurrence.
