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17:57, July 11, 2007 |
A moderate earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted Iran's northwestern province of Ardebil Wednesday morning, but no casualties were reported, the official IRNA news agency said.
The quake was registered at 10:21 a.m. (0651 GMT), head of the seismological base of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University Mehdi Rezapour told IRNA.
The epicenter of the quake was near Namin city in an area measuring 48.51 degrees in longitude and 38.58 degrees in latitude, he said.
The quake was felt in several provincial cities including Ardebil, Nayyer, Namin, Parsabad, Bileh-Savar, Khalkhal and Meshkin-Shahr and caused alarm among residents, according to IRNA's report.
Head of Ardebil Natural Disasters Headquarters Ali Eslami said that governors' offices of provincial cities gave no reports of any casualties or damage to property caused by the quake.
Namin city has a population of 50,000 people. It is located 30 km east of provincial capital city Ardebil and on the borderline with Azerbaijan Republic.
Iran is often hit by quakes of varying magnitudes as it sits on some of the world's most active seismic fault lines.
Source: Xinhua
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