5.9 Magnitude Earthquake In Iran

Three people, including two children, were killed and 40 wounded during the earthquake that hit Iran’s largest desert Dasht-e Kavir, state television reported on Saturday.
5.9 magnitude earthquake struck on Friday to the south of the northern city of Damghan.
In a separate report, the state television website quoted the Secretary General of Iran Red Crescent Society, Zaher Rostani, as they say, that an elderly woman was also among the victims of the earthquake.
The website said six villages in the vicinity Damghan were damaged by the earthquake which about 278 km east of Tehran.

The tremor, which struck at 11:53 pm local time on Friday, also felt in the capital Tehran.
Iran sits several major fault lines in the earth’s crust, and is prone to frequent earthquakes, many of which have been devastating.
The worst in recent times was 6.3 magnitude earthquake which struck the southern city of Bam in December 2003, killing 31,000 people, about a quarter of the population, as well as the destruction of the ancient mud fortress city.
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