Northern elements of the port metropolis of Bandar Abbas skilled an electrical energy outage as a result of collapses of electrical energy lamp posts, Masoud Sadeghi, managing director of the Tanavir Company which is in cost of Iran's electrical energy distribution, advised state TV.
The identical area felt one other earthquake shortly earlier than -- with a magnitude of 6.0 and a depth of 5.6 kilometers, in accordance with the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
Bayrom Nejad -- the pinnacle of Iran's seismology heart -- confirmed the 2 quakes struck between the cities of Laft and Dargahan.According to USGS, no tsunami warnings are at the moment in place for both of the quakes.Rescue groups have been dispatched and injury is being assessed following the earthquake in Iran, in accordance with Mehdi Valipour, the pinnacle of Iran's search and rescue group on state TV.The epicenter of the earthquake was Qeshm Island -- an Iranian island within the Persian Gulf, within the Strait of Hormuz, Nejad added.
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