Magnitude-4.1 quake strikes near Iran nuclear power plant

Tehran, Apr 20: Iran's seismological center says a magnitude-4.1 earthquake has jolted a sparsely populated district some 200 kilometers southeast of Bushehr, a Persian Gulf town that is home to Iran's nuclear power plant.

The center's website says the temblor hit at 1:36 p.m. local time today and its epicenter was the town of Jam, some 880 kilometers south of the capital, Tehran.

In 2013, a magnitude-6.1 quake killed at least 37 people and injured hundreds more in the same region.

Bushehr, which went online with Russian help in 2011, is built to resist earthquakes up to magnitude 8.0.

Iran experiences frequent earthquakes.

In 2003, some 26,000 people were killed by a magnitude-6.6 quake that flattened the historic southeastern city of Bam.

AP