Muscat: Two low- intensity earthquakes struck the Arabian Gulf region on Sunday. The first earthquake measuring 4.7 magnitude on the Richter Scale occurred at a depth of 10km off the coast of Bushehr in Iran at 6.49am. The second one, measuring a magnitude of 5 on the Richter Scale struck the same area at 8.25am.
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Iran is one of the world’s most seismically active countries. Most of its earthquakes occur on land and some low-intensity occur in sea.
A 4.7 Magnitude Earthquake on Richter scale is recorded in Arabian Gulf at 06:49, 16/01/2022 "UAE time” According to the NCM “National Seismic Network”
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