Earthquake of magnitude 5.2 strikes near capital city

On Nov. 7, in an interview with Shahrvand Daily, Ali Beitollahi, the head of the abovementioned research center, stated that Tehran is one of the world's top five cities at risk of an earthquake, “There are a lot of fault lines in Tehran; there are in total about 30 fault lines from north to the south. … Therefore, if there is an earthquake, it will be massive.”