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An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 occurred on July 20, 2010 at 19:38:09 (UTC) in southern Iran, 54 km north-north-west of the city of Kish (Khormozgan). The hypocenter of the earthquake was located at a depth of 10.0 kilometers. The intensity of the earthquake was V on the Mercalli scale.

The earthquake was felt on the island of Qeshm, as well as in Bahrain: Manama, Muharraq. Tremors were also felt in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and Doha (Qatar).

As a result of the earthquake in Fars province, 1 person died and 70 were injured. In Lamerd, about 50% of buildings were damaged. Economic damage from the two earthquakes amounted to $30.03 million.

aftershock

12 minutes after the main shock, on July 20, 2010 at 19:50:10 UTC there was an aftershock of magnitude 5.1. The epicenter of the earthquake was 59.1 km north-north-west of the city of Kish. The hypocenter of the earthquake was located at a depth of 10 km.

Tectonic conditions of the region
At least four tectonic plates (Arabian, Eurasian, Indian and African) and one smaller tectonic block (Anatolian Plate) are responsible for seismicity and tectonics in the Middle East and the surrounding region. The geologic development of the region is a consequence of a number of first-order tectonic processes that include subduction, large-scale transform faults, and the uplift and expansion of the Earth’s crust.

In the east, tectonics is dominated by the collision of the Indian plate with Eurasia, leading to the rise of the mountain ranges of the Himalayas, Karakoram, Pamir and Hindu Kush. Under the Pamirs and the Hindu Kush Mountains in northern Afghanistan, earthquakes occur at depths of up to 200 km as a result of residual lithospheric subduction. Along the western edge of the Indian Plate, the relative movement between India and Eurasia occurs in shifts, scatters, and cross-parallel layers, resulting, for example, in the Suleyman Mountains complex being a fold-over belt. The main fault in this region is in Afghanistan.

Off the southern coasts of Pakistan and Iran, the Makran Trench is a superficial expression of the active subduction of the Arabian Plate under Eurasia. To the northwest of this subduction zone, the collision between the two plates forms folded belts about 1,500 km long and the Zagros Mountains fold-over belt, which cross all of western Iran and spread into northeastern Iraq.

Tectonics in the eastern Mediterranean region is dominated by complex interactions between the plates of Africa, Arabia and Eurasia and the Anatolia block. The dominant structures in this region are: the Red Sea Rift - the center of expansion of the earth's crust between the African and Arabian plates; - a large fault with a displacement along the stretch, in which there is also a relative movement between the African and Arabian plates; The North Anatolian Fault is a right-sided shear fault in northern Turkey that provides most of the forward movement of the Anatolian Plate in the western direction