The 2005 Iran earthquake was a major earthquake that occured on November 27, 2005 at at 13:53 local time (10:23 UTC) with the epicenter 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. Image File history File links Iran_27112005_globe. ... Image File history File links Iran_27112005_globe. ... Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earths surface. ... November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... The epicenter is directly above the earthquakes focus. ... Tehran is a metropolis of 14 million situated at the foot of the towering Alborz range. ... Map of the Persian Gulf. ... The moment magnitude scale (a successor to the Richter scale), was introduced in 1979 by Tom Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori and is used by seismologists to compare the energy released by earthquakes. ...
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 and at least five people are dead. Qeshm, the largest island of Iran, c. ... Categories: Iran geography stubs | Cities in Iran | Coastal cities ...
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