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6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes near Iran’s city of Mashhad
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A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck northern Iran. (Photo by Uwe Dedering (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)])
Iranian state television described the temblor as hitting on Wednesday near Mashaad, the country’s second-largest city. It offered no immediate information on possible damage or injuries.
The U.S. Geological Survey described the earthquake as a magnitude 6.1.
Iran is prone to earthquakes due to a number of faults in the Middle Eastern nation.
In 2003, around 26,000 people were killed by a magnitude 6.6 quake that flattened the historic southeastern Iranian city of Bam.
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