Urgent: 5.5-magnitude quake hits southern Iran -- GFZ-Xinhua

Urgent: 5.5-magnitude quake hits southern Iran -- GFZ

Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia

2026-02-19 12:09:00

BEIJING, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted southern Iran at 0343 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 27.36 degrees north latitude and 52.60 degrees east longitude.