An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 at a depth of 8 kilometers shook Malard in Tehran province, with no reports of casualties and material damage yet. The epicenter of the tremor, which occurred at 10:28 a.m. on Friday local time, was around Western Tehran. The seismic center has occurred at a depth of 8 km, Iranian media reported, and that's ...

December 26, The Iran Project - Iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, being crossed by several major fault lines that cover at least 90% of the country. As a result, earthquakes in Iran occur often and are destructive. In half a day, three light quakes has been felt in Iran's Tehran Province and surrounding cities, as ...

December 24, The Iran Project Extraordinary meeting of Islamic parliaments on Palestine kicking off in Tehran; Holding 1st national conference on citizens rights in Tehran; Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif participaition in the 5th trilateral Iran-Azerbaijan-Turkey in Baku; Magnitude 5.2 earthquake hiting Malard in Tehran province; Iranians ...

December 24, The Iran Project Extraordinary meeting of Islamic parliaments on Palestine kicking off in Tehran; Holding 1st national conference on citizens rights in Tehran; Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif participaition in the 5th trilateral Iran-Azerbaijan-Turkey in Baku; Magnitude 5.2 earthquake hiting Malard in Tehran province; Iranians ...

MNA Heads of three branches of government - the judicial, the executive and the legislative, will hold a meeting within a month to review proposals addressing the pollution and earthquake preparedness in the cosmopolitan Tehran. A member of Parliaments board of directors, Mohammad Ali Vakili, told reporters on Saturday that a joint strategic committee ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Saturday, December 23, and picked headlines from 16 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story in almost all Iranian newspapers was the 5.2-magnitude earthquake that his Tehran and Alborz provinces on Wednesday ...

Tasnim Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli made assurances that provinces that were affected by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake last night are enjoying full security and that governmental organizations are on full alert in the provinces. Since the earthquake happened, all officials and the law enforcement forces as well as social services ...

Press TV- The head of Irans Seismology Institute says the risk of a major earthquake in the capital city of Tehran has decreased as several weak aftershocks were registered following a magnitude 5.2 tremor, which affected six Iranian provinces. Ali Moradi said seven 2-3 magnitude aftershocks have been registered in Tehran so far, adding, There is ...

MNA Two people were killed and 115 reported as injured in the earthquake of 5.2 magnitude that struck Tehran and Alborz Wed. night, according to latest report by Emergency Operation Center. A 70-year-old woman died of heart attack and a 10-year-old girl from Alborz province lost her life due to the stress caused by the 5.2 earthquake that struck ...

Al-Monitor l Zahra Alipour: Is an earthquake likely to occur in Tehran?What will happen if there is an earthquake in Tehran? These questions have recently been discussed in Iranian media and among the public in theaftermath of the earthquakein the west of the country in November. In response to these questions, Iranian experts and officials warn that ...

ISNA l Mehdi Qasemi, Peyman Yazdani & Amir Kholousi: The 5.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Alborz province, west of Tehran, on Wed. night brought many people to the streets and parks, who were in fear of a stronger aftershock.   ...

IRNA - Head of Relief and Rescue Organization of Iran's Red Crescent Society Morteza Salimi said the the 5.2-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday night killed one in Alborz Province, near capital and injured 97 in Tehran and neighboring provinces. Talking to IRNA, Salimi said the quake was also felt in Qom Province in west of Tehran, northern province ...

Press TV- A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits the Iranian city of Malard in Tehran province. According to the Seismological Center of the Institute of Geophysics of Tehran University, the quake hit on Wednesday at23:27 local time (1957 GMT) at a depth of seven kilometers on the border of Tehran and Alborz provinces. The epicenter of the tremor was ...