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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Nereju in Romania

Posted by admin on January 31, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 45.7408S, 26.6575WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Nereju in Romania. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60007ky6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007ky6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 120.26 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 03:26:47 / 3:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 26.6575° East, latitude 45.7408° North, depth = 120.26 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/01/20 / 2020-01-31 01:26:47 / January 31, 2020 @ 1:26 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ploieşti, Băicoi, Zorleni (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Romania (c. 21 959 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Braşov (c. 276 100 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Ploieşti (c. 228 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Bacău (c. 171 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Buzău (c. 131 000 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Focşani (c. 105 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Bârlad (c. 67 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Sfântu-Gheorghe (c. 60 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km WNW of Nereju, Romania.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.6575° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.7408° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 120.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WNW 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 2020-01-31 01:26:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-31 01:50:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.2 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 358 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 0.559 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 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 us60007ky6 Id of event.
Event Code 60007ky6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007ky6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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