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Earthquake kills six in eastern Iran

06 December 2012 09:14 (UTC +04:00)

According to Press TV, the tremor hit the province of South Khorasan at 20:38 local time on Wednesday.

The Iranian Seismological Center said on its website the epicenter of the quake was 25 kilometers from the town of Zohan, at a depth of nine kilometers.

South Khorasan Crisis Management Headquarters Director Mohammad Ali Akhoundi told Mehr news agency "Based on the latest reports from the scene, the quake killed six people and injured 25 others."

Javad Heravi, who represents the province in the Iranian parliament, said that the quake caused damage to rural buildings and cut power lines and telephone communication.

Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes, experiencing at least one small tremor per day on average.

More than 300 people died and over 3,000 others injured in two powerful earthquakes and subsequent aftershocks that rocked the country’s northwestern province of East Azarbaijan in August.