Seismic data confirms Bushehr event was earthquake, not Iranian nuclear test...

A magnitude 5. 0 seismic event near Iran's Bushehr nuclear site was recorded with a foreshock of ML 3. 6 twelve minutes prior and an ML 3.

7 aftershock. Multiple agencies including USGS, EMSC, and GFZ classified the sequence as a natural earthquake rather than an explosion. Iran's own seismological network data shows the pattern of rock failure consistent with tectonic activity and incompatible with a single nuclear detonation.