At 12:08 UTC on 14 November 2021 a M=6.3 earthquake struck Iran close to the village of Fin, 64 km to the north of Bandar Abbas in Iran<\/a>.\u00a0 With a depth of 15 km, this was an event of sufficient magnitude to trigger landslides and damage to structures.\u00a0 Fortunately, it occurred in an area that is lightly populated, so the losses are likely to be low.<\/p>\n The area affected by the Fin earthquake is mountainous but very arid.\u00a0 Experience from similar settings (see our work on the 2010 Sierra Cucapah earthquake in Mexico for example<\/a> – Barlow et al.<\/em> 2014<\/a>) suggests that such events will trigger significant numbers of landslides over the area affected.\u00a0 The arid conditions will mean that these release vast clouds of dust.<\/p>\n Interestingly, a series of videos have emerged on Twitter showing the landslides triggered by this event, posted by Mohammad Mohseni Aref from the University of Potsdam (@MohseniAref)<\/a>.\u00a0 The most circulated is this one<\/a>, which is elegant for capturing both the landslides and the lorries rocking on their suspension as the earthquake waves passed through:-<\/p>\n #Laft_Earthquake<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/zCWZP6pC6C<\/a><\/p>\n — Mohammad Mohseni Aref (@MohseniAref) November 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n