2005 Qeshm earthquake

2005 Qeshm earthquake

The 2005 Iran earthquake was a powerful earthquake that occurred on November 27, 2005 at 13:53 local time (10:23 UTC) which left at least ten people dead and four villages flattened. The epicenter was about 1500 km (900 miles) south of Tehran in the southern reaches of Iran, close to the Persian Gulf. Reports of its strength on the moment magnitude scale have ranged from 5.9 to 6.1.

Qeshm Island and the city of Bandar Abbas are nearby and are known to have been affected. It has been reported that five villages are at least 80% destroyed.


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