An earthquake measuring 5.7 magnitude struck Western Iran on Thursday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
The quake struck Iran’s Khuzestan Province injuring at least 15 people but did not damage oil infrastructure in the province, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported.
Rescue teams were mobilized in the province and surrounding ones and several aftershocks registered, IRNA said.
It hit at a depth of 10 km, GFZ said.
At least five people were killed and 49 injured by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in southern Iran in June.
Iran lies on major seismic faults and experiences one earthquake a day on average. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam, killing 26,000 people. A magnitude 7 tremor that struck western Iran in 2017 killed more than 600 people and injured more than 9,000.