King Charles III's One-Day Visit to Meet Bam Quake Survivors in 2004

Iran suffers from frequent earthquakes, with minor quakes occurring almost daily.[8] This earthquake occurred as a result of stresses generated by movement of one tectonic plate, the Arabian plate, moving northward against another, the Eurasian plate, at approximately 3 centimetres (1 in) per year. The Earth's crust deforms in response to the plate motion in a broad zone spanning the width of Iran and extending north into Turkmenistan.