MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Iran on Friday, weeks after a devastating quake claims more than 500 lives, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre.
14 November 2017, 12:37 GMT
The shallow-quake was registered at 02:32 UTC. Its epicenter lied 65 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of Kerman, populated by over 500,000, and some 489 kilometers (303 miles) east of Shiraz, which has a population of 1.2 million.
The agencies also registered a 5.0-magnitude aftershock in the same area minutes later.
A massive earthquake which struck eastern Iraq and western Iran on November 12 has claimed the lives of at least more than 500 people and injured over 8,000.
According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, the earthquake consisted of two seismic events one after another with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.3 on the Richter scale.
