Earthquake hits southern Iran

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Bandar Charak in Southern Iranian province of Hormuzgan on Sunday, IRNA reported.

The Seismological center of Hormuzgan province affiliated to the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University registered the quake at 16:41 hours local time.

Iran sits astride several major faults in the earth's crust, and is prone to frequent earthquakes, many of which have been devastating.

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