Lar Earthquake of 24 April 1960, Mw=6.1
At 12:14 (UTC) on April 24, 1960, a Mw6.1 earthquake occurred in Lar in the Fars province of Iran. The event caused 420-500 deaths and 6000 injured. James and Ghashghaie (1960) reported that small cracks were developed during the 1960 earthquake. On a map of the Lar area, the authors drew a 2.5-km fault line labeled as “ground fracture” in the alluvial deposits that connects to Kuh-e Qermez (the Red Mountain). The reported ground fracture with NNE–SSW strike is located between the town of Lar in the south southwest and the Kuh-e Qermez in the north northeast, with the east–southeast block downthrown. The nature of this fracture is not known; we only know that this medium-magnitude earthquake in the Zagros was not associated with coseismic surface faulting (Berberian, 2014).
