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TEHRAN, Iran -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6
struck a town Thursday in southern Iran, killing seven people while
causing no damage at the country's only nuclear power plant, state
television reported.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the temblor
struck some 8.7 miles northeast of Borazjan. It hit some 38 miles north
of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, which is near the port city of the
same name.
The website for state television carried a statement from the plant's operators saying it sustained no damage in the quake.
Bushehr province Gov. Fereidoun Hasanvand told state television that 45 people were injured.
Many
people fled their homes during the earthquake, fearful the buildings
would crash down on them, local media reported. Those living in
neighboring provinces also felt the quake.
In April, a
6.1-magnitude earthquake killed at least 37 people and injured hundreds
in a town near Bushehr. The nuclear plant wasn't damaged then.
Iran is located in a zone of tectonic compression where the Arabian
plate is moving into the Eurasian plate, leaving more than 90 percent of
the country crisscrossed by seismic fault lines.
Nine quakes that
hit Iran in the last decades were more than magnitude 6, including a
2003 temblor that killed at least 26,000 people in the city of Bam.
Scientists say more fault lines likely will be discovered in the country
and more major quakes are only a matter of time.
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