A 5.2 magnitude earthquake has just struck Central Iran as Israel continues its attack on Tehran.
The quake's epicentre was just outside the city of Semnan, around 210km east of the capital.
At 35 meters of depth, the quake is regarded as shallow.
It comes as Iran and Israel continue to exchange missile fire since last Friday's blitz on Tehran.
Two Iranian tourists visit natural landforms created by wind erosion in arid desert environments in the Shahdad Kalut Desert near the city of Kerman
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The location of the epicentre
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On May 28, an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck the southern Iran region at a depth of 27 kilometers.
However, the latest tremour comes just hours after the head of the UN nuclear watchdog warned against attacks on nuclear facilities and called for maximum restraint.
Director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, told the UN Security Council: "Armed attack on nuclear facilities... could result in radioactive releases with great consequences within and beyond the boundaries of the state which has been attacked."
Grossi spoke a day after an Israeli military official said it had been "a mistake" for a military spokesperson to have said Israel had struck Bushehr, Iran's only nuclear power plant.
He said he could neither confirm nor deny that Russian-built Bushehr, located on the Gulf coast, had been hit.
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Israel has been striking Iran as tensions escalate in the Middle EastREUTERSIran said on Friday its air defences had been activated in Bushehr, without elaborating. Israel says it is determined to destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities but that it wants to avoid any nuclear disaster.
Meanwhile, a senior Iranian official told Reuters Iran was ready to discuss limitations on uranium enrichment but that any proposal for zero enrichment, not being able to enrich uranium at all, would be rejected, "especially now under Israel's strikes".
Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, speaking in Haifa, said: "We know from the record of Iran they are not negotiating honestly."
Emergency personnel work at an impact site following a missile attack in Tel Aviv
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People attend an anti-Israeli protest after Friday prayers, amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Tehran
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Israel began attacking Iran last Friday, saying its longtime enemy was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons. Iran, which says its nuclear programme is only for peaceful purposes, retaliated with missile and drone strikes on Israel.
Israel is widely assumed to possess nuclear weapons. It neither confirms nor denies this.
Israeli air attacks have killed 639 people in Iran, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency, a US-based human rights organisation that tracks Iran.
The dead include the military's top echelon and nuclear scientists.
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