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DUBAI (Reuters) – At least 25 people were injured on Monday when a magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook southeastern Iran, just a day after another quake injured 290 people in the west, Iranian media reported.
"Up to now Kerman, "Majid Saeedi, head of the provincial crisis management body, told the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
Rescue Kerman province Red Crescent spokesman Hadi Soltani ISNA.
The US Geological Survey has the magnitude of the quake at 5.5, with its epicenter 23 miles (37 km) east of Kerman city. It was very shallow, at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 km), which would have amplified its effect.
It was the fourth earthquake in Iran in two days
On Sunday, at magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit Western Iran, injuring at least 287 people, hours after two quakes struck Hormozgan province in the south, the state-run IRNA reported.
Houshang Bazvand, governor of the affected province of Kermanshah, told IRNA that eight of the injured (19659009) Morteza Salimi, Head of Rescue of the United States of America. Iran's Red Crescent, said damage from the two earlier quakes appeared to be light. Salimi told IRNA
Iran is credited with causing major damage in recent years. magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit western Kermanshah province, killing at least 620 people and injuring thousands.
In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 quake in Kerman province killed 31,000 people and flattened the historic city of Bam.
(Reporting by Dubai newsroom; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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