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One dead after 4.2 quake hits near Iran capital
One dead after 4.2 quake hits near Iran capital
One person has died after a 4.2 magnitude earthquake hit 50km west of Iran's capital, less than a week since an earthquake in the same area killed a pregnant woman.
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The quake is an aftershock of a 5.2 magnitude tremor on December 20 [Getty]
One person has died and dozens injured following a 4.2 magnitude earthquake west of the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday.
State news agency IRNA reported the one person died of a heart attack after the earthquake shook an area 50 kilometres west of the capital.
Most of the 56 injured were hurt while trying to run out of buildings and were released from hospital after treatment, IRNA quoted the country's Emergency Medical Services as saying.
The quake is an aftershock of a 5.2 magnitude quake on December 20 that killed a pregnant woman and injured nearly 100 people.
It was also felt in Tehran where many residents spent the night outside in cars, or in sport facilities and other buildings turned into rescue centres, local news agencies said.
Iran sits atop several fault lines, and Wednesday's quake is the latest in a series to have hit the country in recent weeks.
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the southeastern province of Kerman on December 13, leaving at least 18 people injured.
On November 12, the western province of Kermanshah was hit by a 7.3-magnitude quake that killed 620 people.
Iran's deadliest quake in recent years was a 6.6-magnitude tremor that struck the southeast in 2003, flattening the ancient mud-brick city of Bam and killing at least 31,000 people.
In 1990, a 7.4-magnitude quake in northern Iran killed 40,000 people, injured 300,000 and left half a million homeless, reducing dozens of towns and nearly 2,000 villages to rubble.
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