DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — No less than 3 folks have been killed by means of an earthquake in southern Iran early Saturday morning, state tv reported.

“Sadly prior to now we have now had 3 deaths and 8 wounded,” Mehrdad Hassanzadeh, the top of emergency control for Hormozgan Province on Iran’s Persian Gulf coast, mentioned within the record.

Iranian media mentioned the quake had a magnitude of 6.1, whilst the Eu-Mediterranean Seismological Heart put it at 6.0. The quake struck at a intensity of 10 kilometers, or simply over six miles, the Eu tracking workforce mentioned. Tremors have been felt in Dubai within the United Arab Emirates.

Primary geological fault traces crisscross Iran, which has suffered a number of devastating earthquakes in recent times.