4th November, TEHRAN:

A devastating earthquake has stroked an important port city in the southern Iran in the early hours on Wednesday November 4th, possibly injuring at least more than 700 people, cutting power and also the telephone lines, a news agency of Iran reported on Wednesday. The Islamic Republic News Agency IRNA said that 100s of the injured people had been hospitalized immediately while the rest of the others had some minor cases. The 4.9 magnitude Earthquake struck the Bandar Abbas at about 2:56 am local time, sending the people streaming into streets and also cutting down some power cables. Bandar Abbas is actually the home of a large oil refinery that mainly serves up the domestic marketplace.

The broadcast said that there was neither any information of deaths in the Earthquake, which actually hit about 1,367 kilometers south of Tehran, the capital of Iran. Iran is actually located on the seismic fault lines & is lying on the front to earthquakes. It experiences as a minimum of one minor earthquake everyday on the average. The most destructive Earthquake which hit Iran in the recent years was actually in 2003, when more about 25,000 people were died in a 6.7 magnitude Earthquake in Bam.