Two medium-intensity earthquakes have caused even today an indefinite number of fatalities and considerable property damage in the province of Fars in southern Iran, state television said, reporting that the two tremors have been felt around four in the morning (around one-thirty in the morning in mainland Spain), and marked 5.1 degrees and 5 degrees on the open Richter scale.Emergency equipment and relief have been sent to the area to assist the population, said the television. These areas of southern and eastern Iran have been the scene during the last days of high seismic activity with earthquakes in the cities of Zahedan, Bam, Jash and Iranshahr. Last December, seven people were killed in an earthquake in the southern province of Khorasan also, this week while 16 others were injured and several villages destroyed in the province of Fars.
Iran is located at the confluence of two major tectonic plate in conflict on Earth, and as the authorities have at least one tremor a day on its territory. The last major earthquake in December 2006 destroyed much of the historic city of Bam, in the east of the country, killing over 31,000 people, a quarter of the population of this medieval city.
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