Iran sits on two major tectonic plates and is prone to frequent seismic activity. In 2003, a 6.6-magnitude earthquake destroyed the historic city of Bam in the south-east of the country ...

A new earthquake, measuring 4,3 on the Richter scale, shook southwestern Iran on Wednesday morning ... Meanwhile in the quake-hit city of Bam, the Iranian government upped the death toll to ...

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...

a 6.6-magnitude quake destroyed the historic city of Bam in south-east Iran, killing 26,000 people. Sunday's quake is the deadliest to hit Iran since 2012. But it is only the sixth earthquake of ...

A massive earthquake is feared too have killed up to ... but officials working in the devastated city of Bam had made a preliminary estimate of 10,000 fatalities. The 6.3 magnitude quake hit ...

British rescuers have begun searching for survivors of the Iranian earthquake as officials predicted ... as they arrived in the ancient city of Bam to start the recovery operation.

A 4.6-magnitude earthquake shook the city of Kong at 10:40 a.m. local time at a depth of 10 km ... Kong is a city in the Central District of Bandar Lengeh County, Hormozgan province, Iran.

International rescue teams were flying into Iran on Saturday to join a massive search for survivors from an earthquake that devastated the ancient Silk Road city of Bam, killing some 40,000 people.