4.2 magnitude earthquake 2012-07-27 21:19:26 UTC at 21:19 July 27, 2012 UTC Location: Epicenter at 36.821, 51.301 21.2 km from Chālūs (13.2 miles) An earthquake struck early Friday near Iran's highest peak and jolted Tehran, killing at least one person and injuring more than 20 as people ran for their lives. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. "We were ready to accommodate people in stadiums with respect to social distancing, but it was not necessary," he said, referring to health guidelines aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus.The USGS said the quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres.
An official in There were several mild aftershocks, but no serious damage from the quake that struck after midnight on the border of the provinces of Tehran and Mazandaran, authorities said.Boulders were also seen blocking the roadway leading to the mountainous Damavand area.Many people in Tehran have left their homes out of fear of possible aftershocks.Officials urged people who spent the night outdoors to observe social distancing to limit spread of the coronavirus that has killed nearly 6,500 and infected more than 103,000 in Iran.They assured the public there was no shortage of petrol as people rushed to gas stations to fill up after the quake.Iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, where earthquakes occur often and are destructive. "The situation is now stable, but we are still completely on alert" in the provinces of Tehran, Alborz, Mazandaran, Qom and Semnan, said Hamed Sajjadi, head of the organisation's rescue operations.
In addition to Tehran, the quake was felt in Alborz, Qom, and Qazvin provinces. An earthquake near Tehran early Friday morning killed one person and injured at least seven others, a spokesman for Iran's Health Ministry reported on Twitter. Residents exited buildings and took to the streets in accordance with safety measures.
"We felt it completely shaking (the building), and then we all went out of the house together to be outside and not to be in danger if an aftershock struck,"His wife Maryam, who like him was wrapped in a blanket, said they escaped the apartment using the stairwell.
Its epicentre was south of Mount Damavand, a largely inactive volcano which at 5,671 metres (18,606 feet) is Iran's highest peak.Tehran University's Seismological Centre said the quake had a magnitude of 5.1 magnitude and was at a depth of seven kilometres.It reported a series of aftershocks, the most powerful measuring 4.0.Iran sits on top of major tectonic plates and experiences frequent seismic activity.A 5.7 magnitude earthquake that rattled the western village of Habash-e Olya on February 23 killed at least nine people over the border in neighbouring Turkey.In November 2017, a 7.3-magnitude quake in Iran's western province of Kermanshah killed 620 people.In 2003, a 6.6-magnitude quake in southeastern Iran levelled the ancient mud-brick city of Bam and killed at least 31,000 people.Iran's deadliest quake was a 7.4-magnitude tremor in 1990 that killed 40,000 people in northern Iran, injured 300,000 and left half a million homeless.In December and January, two earthquakes struck near Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant.Iran's Gulf Arab neighbours have raised concerns about the reliability of the country's sole nuclear power facility, and the risk of radioactive leaks in case of a major earthquake................................. Advertisement ................................ © COPYRIGHT NDTV CONVERGENCE LIMITED 2020. 4.3 magnitude earthquake 2015-05-10 22:08:58 UTC at 22:08 May 10, 2015 UTC Location: Epicenter at 36.695, 49.884 48.2 km from Qazvin (30.2 miles) Aftershocks are possible. A large earthquake of magnitude 5.2 has struck Iran's capital Tehran, according to state television. Iran’s national seismological center confirmed it recorded eight aftershocks since the 5.1 earthquake… (Representational)An earthquake struck early Friday near Iran's highest peak and jolted Tehran, killing at least one person and injuring more than 20 as people ran for their lives.The shallow 4.6 magnitude quake hit at 00:48 am (2018 GMT) near the city of Damavand, about 55 kilometres (34 miles) east of Tehran, the US Geological Survey said.It saw scores of residents of Tehran flee buildings for the safety of the capital's streets and parks, AFP journalists reported.Many spent the rest of the night sleeping in their cars on the side of the road, apparently too fearful to return to their homes.Some wore face masks, a sign of the times in a country already struggling to contain the Middle East's deadliest outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.The temblor struck as Iranians were either sleeping or resting after iftar, the meal breaking the daytime fast observed by Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "We were sitting down when the earthquake struck," said 45-year-old Tehran resident Ahmad.
Tehran has had: (M1.5 or greater) 0 earthquakes in the past 24 hours 0 earthquakes in the past 7 days; 0 earthquakes in the past 30 days; 3 earthquakes in the past 365 days Two people died in capital Tehran while 22 others are injured, according to state media.Two people have died and 22 others were injured as they fled their homes in a panic following a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that hit northern Iran early on Friday (20:18 GMT on Thursday), according to state media.Among the dead were a 21-year-old woman in Tehran who suffered heart failure, and a 60-year-old man in the city of Damavand, east of the capital, killed by a head injury, officials said.According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the epicentre of the earthquake was at Damavand, just northeast of the capital, at the depth of 10km (6.2 miles).One resident in the Iranian capital told Al Jazeera that the shaking of the ground felt "very strong".Images posted on social media showed people huddled in the streets of Tehran in the middle of the night, as they tried to escape from the quake.People are coming out into the streets after a 5.1 richter earthquake just hit near Tehran.