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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Nereju in Romania

Posted by admin on October 15, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 45.668S, 26.5353WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Nereju in Romania. Unique identifier: us2000au78. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000au78. Exact location, longitude 26.5353° East, latitude 45.668° North, depth = 149.04 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:54:56 / 9:54 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 149.04 km (93 miles). Global time and date of event 25/09/17 / 2017-09-25 07:54:56 / September 25, 2017 @ 7:54 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Podu Turcului, Berceni, Cleja. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Romania (c. 21 959 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Braşov (c. 276 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Buzău (c. 131 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Focşani (c. 105 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Sfântu-Gheorghe (c. 60 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Câmpina (c. 41 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Tecuci (c. 41 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 15 km WSW of Nereju, Romania. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.5353° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.668° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 149.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WSW of Nereju, Romania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-25 07:54:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-15 05:29:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 234 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 0.292 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 23 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 us2000au78 Id of event.
Event Code 2000au78 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000au78, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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