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Iran Earthquake
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake killed at least 37 and injured hundreds more in a sparsely populated area in southern Iran on Tuesday, Iranian officials said, adding that it did not damage a nuclear plant in the region. The report said the earthquake struck the town of Kaki, 60 miles (96km) south-east of Bushehr on the Persian Gulf and home of Iran's first nuclear power plant, built with Russian help. "No damage was done to Bushehr power plant," the Bushehr provincial governor, Fereidoun Hasanvand, told state TV. He said 37 people had died so far and 850 were injured, including 100 who had been taken to hospital. The plant's chief, Mahmoud Jafari, confirmed the site's condition to semi-official Mehr news agency, saying that it could resist earthquakes of up to magnitude eight.

Water and electricity were cut to many residents, said Ebrahim Darvishi, governor of the worst-hit district, Shonbeh. The International Atomic Energy Agency indicated it was satisfied there was little danger. The UN's nuclear watchdog said it had been informed by Iran that there was no damage to the plant and no radioactive release and, based on its analysis of the earthquake, was not seeking additional information. Shahpour Rostami, the deputy governor of Bushehr province, told state TV that rescue teams had been sent to Shonbeh. Three helicopters surveyed the damaged area, said Mohammad Mozaffar, the head of Iran's Red Crescent rescue department. He said damage was particularly bad in the village of Baghan. Kaki resident Mondani Hosseini told the Associated Press that people had run into the streets out of fear.

What caused Irans deadly Earthquake?
Crashing continents caused today's (April 9) deadly earthquake in Iran, which killed dozens, according to news reports.The earthquake hit in the southern Zagros Mountains, a stunning range that marks the boundary between the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates, said Bill Barnhart, a research geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Denver office. The Arabian plate is grinding northward at about 0.4 inches (10 millimeters) a year, pushing the boot-shaped Arabian peninsula into the Eurasian plate, which covers most of Europe and Asia. Just like the Himalaya Mountains, whose grand height and complex tectonics reflect the impact between the Indian and Eurasian plates, the Zagros Mountains are a mix of different earthquake fault styles, Barnhart told OurAmazingPlanet.

what countries did it affect and in what way?
The quake was felt in Dubai, Qatar and Bahrain on the other side of the Persian Gulf, according to The Weather Channel. Twitter users in Bahrain and Qatar said buildings there had been evacuated. In a preliminary report, the USGS said the magnitude-6.3 quake struck at 6:52 a.m. ET at a depth of just under 8 miles. The Iranian Seismological Center at the University of Tehran put the magnitude at a lower 6.1 and said the epicenter was in Kaki, an inland town around 60 miles southeast of Bushehr. A series of five aftershocks followed within an hour of the initial temblor, the strongest of which measured at a magnitude of 5.4, the USGS reported. On its website, the USGS estimated that only about 3,000 people would have felt most violent shaking from the quake, and said another 80,000 live in areas that would have experienced strong tremors. In the region’s largest city, Shiraz, home to about 1.5 million people, the earthquake would have been felt as light shaking.