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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Gura Teghii in Romania

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Gura Teghii in Romania. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:15:04 / 3:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 152.35 km (95 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cfna. Id of event: us1000cfna. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/18 / 2018-02-04 13:15:04 / February 4, 2018 @ 1:15 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 26.3751 East, latitude 45.5492 North, depth = 152.35 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Baraolt, Târgu Ocna, Târgu Trotuş (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Braşov (c. 276 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ploieşti (c. 228 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Buzău (c. 131 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Focşani (c. 105 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Sfântu-Gheorghe (c. 60 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Câmpina (c. 41 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Romania (c. 21 959 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 8 km NNW of Gura Teghii, Romania. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.3751° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.5492° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	152.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km NNW of Gura Teghii, Romania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-02-04 13:15:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-04 15:12:25	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	188	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	0.134	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000cfna	Id of event.
Event Code	1000cfna	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000cfna,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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