A 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit Khoy City in northwestern Iran on Friday morning.

According to the Seismological Center of the Geophysics Institute of the University of Tehran,� the quake occurred at 06:46 a.m. local time at a depth of 8 kilometers.

The latitude of the 5.6-magnitude�quake was�38.412�degrees north and its longitude was 44.822 degrees east.

Meanwhile, a 3.6-magnitude earthquake hit�Salmas in Iran's west Azarbaijan�on Friday morning, according to the Seismological Center of the Geophysics Institute of the University of Tehran.

Iran sits on major fault lines and is prone to near-daily earthquakes.

By IRNA