At least five people were killed in an earthquake in Iran on Saturday.
Around 50 other people were injured in the night tremors in the southern province of Hormosgan, state television reported.
According to the provincial government, the village of Sajeh Khost, near which the center of the earthquake was, was particularly hard hit.
According to the USGS, the first earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 occurred around 2 a.m.
Two more earthquakes of magnitude 5.7 and 6.0 followed two hours later.
As was shown on state television, many houses in Zajeh Khost were completely destroyed.
Ambulances barely got through because debris littered the streets.
For fear of aftershocks, many people also spent the rest of the night outdoors in the port city of Bandar Abbas, which has more than 500,000 inhabitants and is located around one hundred kilometers east of the epicenter.
The power went out in almost 30 villages.
Several tectonic fault lines run beneath Iran, and the country is regularly shaken by earthquakes.
The most devastating earthquake in Iran occurred in 1990: At that time, 40,000 people were killed in the north of the country by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4.