Overview

• A shallow 5.1–5.2 magnitude earthquake hit 22–35 km southwest of Semnan at a depth of 10 km, sending tremors through Tehran and surrounding regions.
• Iran’s Fordow enrichment plant lay within the quake zone but suffered no damage, and Iranian media reported no casualties or structural harm.
• The Israeli Defense Forces have maintained airstrikes on multiple Iranian nuclear facilities, including confirmed hits at the Arak water reactor and Natanz enrichment site.
• An IDF spokesperson retracted an earlier claim of striking the Bushehr nuclear power plant, attributing the report to a mistake.
• Rafael Grossi warned that any military operation targeting nuclear installations could trigger radioactive releases with far-reaching cross-border consequences.