Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Poiana Cristei in Romania

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Poiana Cristei in Romania. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/10/15 / 2015-10-07 09:25:02 / October 7, 2015 @ 9:25 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 12:25:02 / 12:25 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 129.699 km (81 miles). Event id: us10003leh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003leh. Exact location, longitude 26.8586° East, latitude 45.6574° North, depth = 129.699 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Valea Călugărească, Răchitoasa, Zorleni. Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Buzău (c. 131 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Focşani (c. 105 100 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Bârlad (c. 67 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Sfântu-Gheorghe (c. 60 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Tecuci (c. 41 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Râmnicu Sărat (c. 38 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Romania (c. 21 959 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km W of Poiana Cristei, Romania. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.8586° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.6574° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	129.699 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km W of Poiana Cristei, Romania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-10-07 09:25:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-25 09:57:23	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	298	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.15	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10003leh	Id of event.
Event Code	10003leh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003leh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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