TEHRAN – A total of 149 earthquakes were recorded across the country in the week from November 1 to 7, according to the Seismology Network of the University of Tehran Institute of Geophysics.
Statistically, there were 130 earthquakes with a magnitude of less than 3. There were 15 earthquakes of magnitude 3 to 4. According to the ISNA report, there have been four earthquakes of magnitude 4 to 5 in the country, but no earthquakes greater than magnitude 5.
Among the provinces in the country, Fars had the most earthquakes with 20, followed by Yazd and Kerman with 18 each, and Isfahan and Khorasan Razavi with 12 each.
Of the total earthquakes, one with a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale occurred in Yazd province on November 1.
Around the same time, an earthquake struck Tehran. No earthquakes were recorded in Ardabil, Alborz, Zanjan, Qom, Qazvin, Gilan, Mazandaran, and Markazi governorates.
According to the Seismology Network of the Geophysical Institute of Tehran University, a total of 6,272 earthquakes were recorded across the country in the past calendar year (March 2024-March 2025).
Of the registered earthquakes, 150 were of Richter scale 4 or higher. The country experiences at least five earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or higher each month.
The Iranian Plateau is located in a highly seismically active region of the world and is known not only for large and devastating earthquakes, but also for natural disasters, especially earthquake-related disasters.
Approximately 2 percent of the world’s earthquakes occur in Iran, but over 6 percent of the world’s earthquake casualties in the 20th century were reported to be due to Iranian earthquakes.
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