The UAE residents reported feeling tremors at around 8:00pm on Saturday after 5.3 earthquake hit Southern Iran.
According to reports tremors were also felt in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The NCM reported the quake was felt by residents at 8:07 pm but there was no effect of it in the UAE.
The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said on Saturday that an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck southern Iran on Saturday.
The quake was at a depth of 10 km, EMSC said.
“We have not received any report of serious damage yet. But large areas have been struck by these earthquakes and the evaluation work continues,” Mokhtar Salahshour, head of Hormozgan Province’s Red Crescent, told state TV.
Iranian state media said the Quakes had magnitudes of 5.7 and 5.8. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said one earthquake had a magnitude of 5.5.
In early July, at least five people were killed and 49 injured by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake that struck an area near the epicentre of Saturday’s Quake.
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