At least 30 people have been killed and 800 injured in a 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit Iran. Source: AAP
IRAN has stepped up relief efforts for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed 37 people and damaged dozens of villages but left its sole nuclear power station unscathed.
More than 90 villages in the southern province of Bushehr were hit hard by Tuesday's quake, with two destroyed, the head of Iran's Red Crescent rescue corps, Mahmoud Mozafar, told state television.
More than 850 people were injured and about 800 houses were destroyed.
Mozafar said the priority was to get aid to stricken villages after the search for survivors ended on Wednesday morning.
Ali Alipour, who owns a cultural centre in the village of Khormoj, about 35 kilometres from the quake's epicentre, said he had run for cover when it hit and "the sound of death filled the fields".
"Water and food are being distributed among survivors. Portable toilets are also being set up," Alipour told AFP.
Authorities said the relief operation got underway a few hours after the 6.1-magnitude quake struck at 4.22 pm (2152 Tuesday AEST) on Tuesday.
About 2100 tents have been set up in the quake zone, emergency officials said.
The epicentre was just 90 kilometres southeast of the port city of Bushehr, home to Iran's only nuclear power plant.
Iran said it had informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that there had been no damage to the plant.
The UN watchdog said its incident and emergency centre was "not currently seeking additional information from Iran" following analysis of the "earthquake's magnitude and other seismic parameters, as well as its location."
Iran's atomic energy chief Fereydoon Abbasi Davani said the plant was not operational when the quake struck as it was "under maintenance," Iranian media reported.
The Russian-built plant was designed to withstand an earthquake of a magnitude greater than 8, Abbasi Davani added.
The plant's chief engineer, Mahmoud Jafari, said "no operational or security protocols were breached."
First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi and Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najar travelled to the quake zone to check on relief operations, state television reported.
A resident, who asked not to be identified, said power and water supplies were "gradually being restored".
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