By Charlie Jones,
An earthquake has hit Iran just as the country is being hammered by Israeli and US military strikes.
The magnitude 4.4 quake hit the Gerash region at a depth of 10km on Tuesday March 3. The scale of the damage is not yet clear.
The region is considered one of the most seismically active areas in the Middle East, and earthquakes in the magnitude-4 range are relatively common.
Iran struck the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia’s capital with a drone early Tuesday as it kept hitting targets around the region, while the United States and Israel pounded Iran with airstrikes in what U.S. President Donald Trump suggested was just the start of a relentless campaign that could last more than a month. The expanding conflict has so far killed hundreds of people, the vast majority in Iran. It comes after Trump was caught on a hot mic making a chilling threat that could spark WW3.
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The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment site had sustained “some recent damage,” though there was “no radiological consequence expected.” Natanz earlier came under attack by the U.S. in the 12-day Iran-Israel war in June.
