An earthquake of magnitude of 4.9 struck near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant today.
It was centered 53 km east of Bushehr and was relatively shallow - only 10 km deep according to Iranian media - which would have amplified the shaking.
"Survey teams have been dispatched to the area and fortunately ... there are no reports on damage, except some landslides in a mountainous area," Reuters cited head of the provincial emergency department Jahangir Dehqani as saying.
The U.S. Geological Survey earlier said the quake had a magnitude of 5.1. The quake struck at 5.23am local time (0153GMT), at the relatively shallow depth of 38km.
