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

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Munteni in Romania. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009buq. Id of event: us60009buq. The temblor was picked up at 00:04:16 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 24/04/20 / 2020-04-24 22:04:16 / April 24, 2020 @ 10:04 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 27.4889 East, latitude 45.8961 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Covasna, Gârleni, Comrat (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Galaţi (c. 294 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Brăila (c. 213 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Bacău (c. 171 400 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Buzău (c. 131 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Focşani (c. 105 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Vaslui (c. 69 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Bârlad (c. 67 800 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km SE of Munteni, Romania. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	27.4889° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.8961° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km SE of Munteni, Romania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-24 22:04:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-24 22:28:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	15	The total number of felt reports
CDI	6.2	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	364	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	1.155	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	16	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	us60009buq	Id of event.
Event Code	60009buq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60009buq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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