Quake of 6.6 Richter hits southeast Iran: Strasbourg Observatory

PARIS (AFP) Dec 26, 2003
A major earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale shook the region around Dadkan in southeast Iran early Friday, the Strasbourg Observatory reported.

The quake, which hit at 0156 GMT, was the most powerful in the region since 1998, the observatory said.

Earthquakes are very frequent in Iran. Since 1991 nearly 1,000 tremors have claimed some 17,600 lives and injured 53,000 people, according to official figures.

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