Iran has told the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency that an earthquake that struck close to the country's only nuclear plant on Tuesday did not damage the facility, the IAEA said, Reuters reported.
The Vienna-based U.N. body said the quake - hit about 91 km (56 miles) from the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
"Iran has informed (the IAEA's Incident and Emergency Centre) of the event, reporting that there has been no damage to the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant and no radioactive release from the installation," the U.N. agency said in a statement.
Based on this information and the IAEA's own seismic analysis of the earthquake's magnitude, location and other factors, the agency "is not currently seeking additional information from Iran," the statement added.
An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale occured in Iran on Wednesday on 6.28 in Kaki, the province of Bushehr.
On Tuesday night an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale also happened in Bushehr province.
Two more quakes hit Iran Wednesday morning, one 3.9 Richter scale measured quake occured in Kiyaser city of Iran's Mazandaran province near the Caspian Sea, and the other 4.0 quake hit Iran's Abadan city of Khuzestan province.
The relief operations continue at the quake affected areas, and according to the latest statistics 37 people died as a result of the quakes, and over 850 were injured.