 IRNA - Tremors shook the city of Doroud in Lorestan province at 22:01 hours local time (1831 GMT) Monday night. The local seismological center affiliated to Tehran university Geophysics institute measured the magnitude of tremors at 3.8 degrees on the richter scale. There is no report of damages or casualties so far. "Ready to calibrate, Mr. Smith?"
"Ready to calibrate, Mr. Jones. On my mark..." |
Over 97 percent of the country has the history of earthquakes. Iran is situated in one of the world's most active seismic fault lines and quakes of varying magnitudes are of usual occurrence. In the latest major incident of earthquake which rattled the country a strong earthquake shook Zarand causing widespread destruction in the area in February 2005. The quake, measuring 6.4 on the open-ended Richter scale, struck the town killing over 600 people and injuring over thousands of others. |