Southern Iran caused by a 5.8 earthquake killed 32 injured
TEHRAN, July 21 (Xinhua source Jianghe Guang Du Hai) 21, according to Iranian television news reported the evening of 20 in Iran's southern Fars Province magnitude 5.8 earthquake has caused one death, 32 people were injured.
Iranian Seismological Center Web site under the news that the earthquake epicenter is located near Iran's southern Fars province of Hormozgan province areas. Iran's audio-visual organization cited the Iranian Red Crescent official as saying that some villages in southern Fars province, the majority of houses were destroyed.
Hormozgan province emergency Center for Ahmad Gaby told Xinhua in areas near the epicenter might be more casualties.
Iranian Seismological Center Web site records show that the earthquake epicenter was located 27 degrees north latitude, 53.9 degrees east longitude, focal depth of only 10 km. The earthquake occurred at 12 minutes and 23 minutes later, the epicenter region were rocked again, 5.2 and 4.1 magnitude aftershock.
Iran in a number of geological faults, earthquakes frequently. In 2003 the city of Bam in Kerman province in southern Iran, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred, causing 3.1 million deaths, the number of deaths accounted for a quarter of the population of Bam city. Bam earthquake in the ancient buildings are severely damaged.
view of the number of earthquakes in the Iranian capital Tehran, bring, some Iranian officials have been advocating moving the capital. In the early 20th century, the late 80s and early 90s, moved the capital of Iran once asked to conduct a preliminary plan.
