On Monday morning, it was reported that two earthquakes hit Iran. A strong 4.3-magnitude earthquake was recorded in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, near the border with Pakistan. 

Meanwhile, a magnitude 2.5 earthquake struck 18 miles away from Qom, Qom Province, on Sunday at 11:35 p.m. local time. Explosions followed the relatively light quake.

The quake and explosions followed an Israeli Air Force strike in the area.

The Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant houses advanced centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium to high-grade purity. It presents a challenging target for Israel. The plant is located deep in the mountains of northern Iran, and it is believed that an effective attack would require bunker buster bombs. Israel does not have such ordinance nor the heavy bombers to deliver such a payload. 

Israel targeted the site during its Friday attacks, but the IAEA said it was not impacted, and the IDF has not claimed any significant damage there. Iranian air defenses shot down an Israeli drone in the vicinity of the plant.

“If Fordow remains operational, Israel’s attacks may barely slow Iran’s path to the bomb,” James M. Acton, co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote on Friday. Acton said Israel might be able to collapse the entrance to the facility, but noted that destroying much more of the Fordow site would be a difficult task for Israel.

A massive explosion can be seen in the distance along the Tehran-Qom road, coinciding with reports of an earthquake in Qom, near the Fordow nuclear facility. pic.twitter.com/RcGTQzKXKV— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) June 15, 2025

Pakistani ARY News reported the incident, claiming the ”Israeli strike on Fordow nuclear site triggers earthquake in Iran,” as did The Free Press Journal, Tempo News, and Money Control.

While it is unlikely that relatively small IAF bombs would trigger a geological event, there might be a more likely explanation. The prophets explicitly mention earthquakes and volcanoes as playing a role in the end of days, preparing the world by burning away impurities, as a crucible is used in metallurgy to purify metal.

“And I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried; they shall call on My name and I will answer them; I will say: ‘It is My people’ and they shall say: ‘Hashem is my God.’” Zechariah 13:9

The Prophet Ezekiel specifically described earthquakes as preceding the War of Gog and Magog:

Mountains shall be overthrown, cliffs shall topple, and every wall shall crumble to the ground. Ezekiel 38:20

Some rabbis have attributed this pre-Magog shake-up to God intervening in the fray and using the forces of nature as His weapons of choice.

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