July 10, 1947 Earthquake: Shirvan, Iran

Date

July 10, 1947

Time

15:00 UTC

Place

Shirvan, Iran

Magnitude

4.1

Focal depth

9 km (6 mi)

Intensity

7 on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

37.500° N, 57.800° E

Country

Iran

Damage

Moderate (about $1 to $5 million)

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

• October 5, 1948, Ashkhabad, TurkmenistanM7.2 · 110,000 deaths · $25 million · 82 km
• 1101, Khorasan, IranM6.5 · 60,000 deaths · 198 km
• November 17, 1893, Quchan, Mashhad, Bojnurd, IranM6.6 · 18,000 deaths · 63 km
• November 18, 1667, Shirvan, Shamkha, Iran12,000 deaths · 43 km
• July 30, 1673, Mashhad, Neyshabur (Nishapur), IranM6.6 · 5,600 deaths · 189 km
• August 20, 943, Nisa, Turkmenistan5,000 deaths · 71 km
• January 6, 1872, Quchan, IranM6.3 · 4,000 deaths · 49 km
• May 1, 1929, Kopet-Dagh, IranM7.2 · 3,800 deaths · 66 km
• December 23, 1871, Quchan, IranM5.6 · 2,000 deaths · 49 km
• February 22, 1852, Khabushan (NW Kuchan), IranM5.8 · 2,000 deaths · 69 km
• January 17, 1895, Quchan, IranM6.8 · 1,000 deaths · 69 km
• April 2, 1879, Bojnurd, IranM6.7 · 700 deaths · 35 km
• July 30, 1970, Karnaveh, Marev, IranM6.7 · 220 deaths · $8 million · 2,000 houses destroyed · 171 km
• September 17, 1923, Bodzhnurd, Qaleh Jaq Kmen, IranM6.4 · 157 deaths · 35 km
• February 4, 1997, Bojnurd, Shirvan, Esfarayen, IranM6.5 · 88 deaths · $30 million · 5,500 houses destroyed · 48 km

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Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 3854.