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On April 16, 2013, at 8:44 p.m. local time (10:44 UTC), a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck southeastern Iran, about 83 kilometers (52 miles) east of Khash. This image, based on data acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite, shows the region where the earthquake occurred. Land is shown with shades of green and beige. Higher elevations are lighter in color.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake was the result of normal faulting at an intermediate depth in the Arabian plate lithosphere, approximately 80 kilometers (50 miles) beneath the Earth's surface. In January of 2011, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred approximately 200 kilometers (125 miles) to the east, in a similar tectonic environment.

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