{"id":9050,"date":"2021-04-18T14:24:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T14:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=9050"},"modified":"2021-04-18T14:24:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T14:24:42","slug":"5-9-magnitude-earthquake-hits-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/04\/18\/5-9-magnitude-earthquake-hits-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"5.9-magnitude earthquake hits Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-area\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/345987-59-magnitude-earthquake-hits-iran\">\n<p><strong>TEHRAN:<\/strong> An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale Sunday hit Iran&#8217;s southwestern Bushehr province, which houses a nuclear power plant, injuring five people but causing no major damage, state media said.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-kilometre (six-mile) deep quake hit 27 kilometres northwest of the port city of Genaveh at 11:11 am local time (0641 GMT) and was felt in nearby provinces, Iran&#8217;s seismological agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9053\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.9-magnitude-earthquake-hits-Iran-rapidnews-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"5.9-magnitude-earthquake-hits-Iran-rapidnews\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.9-magnitude-earthquake-hits-Iran-rapidnews-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.9-magnitude-earthquake-hits-Iran-rapidnews-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.9-magnitude-earthquake-hits-Iran-rapidnews-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.9-magnitude-earthquake-hits-Iran-rapidnews-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.9-magnitude-earthquake-hits-Iran-rapidnews-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.9-magnitude-earthquake-hits-Iran-rapidnews-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.9-magnitude-earthquake-hits-Iran-rapidnews-675x450.jpeg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">State news agency IRNA reported that the quake and several aftershocks caused power blackouts and cut phone lines nearby but caused &#8220;no damage&#8221; at the Bushehr nuclear complex about 100 kilometres away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The minor damage to Genaveh\u00b4s water, electricity, telecommunication and gas infrastructure has been repaired,&#8221; the head of the province\u00b4s crisis management told IRNA.<\/p>\n<p>Iran sits astride the boundaries of several major tectonic plates and experiences frequent seismic activity.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, a 6.6-magnitude quake in southeastern Iran levelled the ancient mud-brick city of Bam and killed at least 31,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u00b4s deadliest quake was a 7.4-magnitude tremor in 1990 that killed 40,000 people in the north, injured 300,000 and left half a million homeless.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale Sunday hit Iran&#8217;s southwestern Bushehr province,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>5.9-magnitude earthquake hits 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