High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2005 Qeshm earthquake was a powerful earthquake that occurred on November 27, 2005, at 13:52 local time (10:22 UTC) just west of a sparsely populated area of Qeshm Island off of Southern Iran. The earthquake was the second powerful one in Iran that occurred in 2005, following the Zarand earthquake in February. It killed 13 people and devastated 13 villages. The epicenter was about 1,500 kilometers (932 mi) south of Tehran in the Persian Gulf, close to the southern reaches of Iran, and measurements showed that the earthquake was about 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale. Over 400 minor aftershocks followed the main quake, 36 of which were greater than magnitude 2.5.