April 20, 2015 05:05 pm | Updated 05:05 pm IST - TEHRAN
A magnitude-4.1 earthquake has jolted a sparsely-populated district some 200 kilometres southeast of Bushehr, a Persian Gulf town that is home to Iran’s nuclear power plant, Iran’s seismological centre said.
The centre’s website said the temblor hit at 1.36 pm local time on Monday and its epicentre was the town of Jam, some 880 kilometres south of Tehran.
In 2013, a magnitude-6.1 quake killed at least 37 people and injured hundreds more in the same region.
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