Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Eşelniţa in Romania

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Eşelniţa in Romania. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000mv4b. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mv4b. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/04/24 / 2024-04-30 05:42:05 / April 30, 2024 @ 5:42 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 05:42:05 / 5:42 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 13.297 km (8 miles). Exact location of event, depth 13.297 km, 22.39° East, 44.637° North.

The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Drobeta-Turnu Severin (c. 102 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Târgu Jiu (c. 97 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Reşiţa (c. 81 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Vidin (c. 54 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Zaječar (c. 49 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Bor (c. 39 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ciupercenii Noi, Filiaşi, Moţăţei (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Bulgaria (c. 7 149 000 pop), Romania (c. 21 959 000 pop), Serbia (c. 7 345 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 7 km SSE of Eşelniţa, Romania.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	22.39° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.637° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.297 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km SSE of Eşelniţa, Romania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-30 05:42:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-04-30 06:04:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	272	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.116	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us6000mv4b	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mv4b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mv4b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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