Earthquake near Iran-Pakistan border kills 40

A major earthquake hit a region near the Iran-Pakistan border today, reportedly killing at least 40 people in the second deadly quake in the area in less than a week.

The state television network in Iran, Press TV, is reporting 40 killed in the latest quake, which hit less than a week after a quake in Iran killed at least 37 people.

Earlier reports said the country's seismological centre pegged Tuesday's earthquake at a magnitude 7.5, but that was changed to 7.7 later in the day.

The centre said the quake was centred near Saravan, a sparsely populated area about 48 kilometres from the Pakistani border.Survivors search the rubble, a day after the earthquake, on April 10 at the city of Shonbeh, southern Iran. The 6.1-magnitude quake killed dozens and injured hundreds more in a sparsely populated area. (ISNA, Mohammad Salehinia/Associated Press)

The U.S. Geological Survey put the preliminary magnitude at 7.8 and at a depth of 15.2 kilometres.

The quake was felt as far away as New Delhi, and the Gulf cities of Dubai and Bahrain.

Across the Gulf, highrise buildings swayed and officials ordered evacuations. Dubai has the world's tallest tower, the 828-metre Burj Khalifa.

A resident in the quake zone, Manouchehr Karimi, told The Associated Press by phone that "the quake period was long," and occurred "when many people were at home to take a midday nap."

Last week's 6.1-magnitude quake hit about 96 kilometres southeast of Bushehr, the site of Iran's reactor.

In 2003, about 26,000 people were killed by a magnitude-6.6 quake that flattened the historic southeastern Iranian city of Bam.

With files from The Associated Press

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