
The Crisis Management Department has been placed on full alert, he further noted.
According to the Seismological Center of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University, the earthquake occurred at 1:46 p.m. local time at the depth of 8 km underground.
Iran sits on major fault lines and is prone to near-daily earthquakes.
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