There have been no fast experiences of harm or accidents from the temblor Sunday.

Iranian state tv alerted on its broadcast, saying it was a 5.9 magnitude. A second aftershock quake of 4.5 magnitude adopted it.

The US Geological Survey referred to as it a 5.8 magnitude earthquake, positioned on the port metropolis of Bandar Genaveh. It described its depth at 10 kilometers (6.2 miles).

A magnitude 5 earthquake could cause appreciable harm. Such shallow earthquakes as Sunday’s even have broader harm.

That is some 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant.

Iran is on main seismic faults and experiences one earthquake a day on common. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake flattened the historic metropolis of Bam, killing 26,000 folks.

A magnitude 7 earthquake that struck western Iran in 2017 killed greater than 600 folks and injured greater than 9,000.