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That town is some 48 kilometers (30 miles) north of the port city of Bushehr, home of the Bushehr nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n<p>A report about the earthquake by the official IRNA news agency gave no details about casualties nor if there was any damage. In April, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake killed at least 37 people and injured hundreds in a town near Bushehr. The nuclear plant wasn\u2019t damaged then.<\/p>\n<p>Iran sits on a series of faults. It experiences minor quakes once a day on average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Iran (AP) &mdash; An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 has struck a town in southern Iran near a nuclear power plant. 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