Earthquakes near Ahvaz through history

None reached magnitude 7: the strongest was a magnitude 5.6, twice: on September 25, 2002 (Masjed-E Soleyman) and on July 8, 2019 (Masjed-E Soleyman). The one on July 8, 2019 was the deadliest: NOAA records one death for it. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.4 on December 5, 2024 (31 km SE of Masjed Soleymān, Iran). NOAA’s record here begins on April 29, 1085 with an earthquake (Arajan,Khuzestan). It grows thinner going back: 5 of the 6 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on.

• December 5, 2024Earthquake · M 5.431 km SE of Masjed Soleymān, IranUSGS · NOAA NCEI
• July 8, 2019Earthquake · M 5.6Masjed-E Soleyman · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
• September 25, 2002Earthquake · M 5.6Masjed-E SoleymanNOAA NCEI
• April 29, 1085EarthquakeArajan,KhuzestanNOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Ahvaz when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
• USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
• NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
• Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
• A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
• Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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