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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Cașoca in Romania

Posted by admin on September 16, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 45.5447S, 26.2689WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Cașoca in Romania on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/09/24 / 2024-09-16 14:40:21 / September 16, 2024 @ 2:40 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ne92. Id of event: us7000ne92. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:40:21 / 2:40 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 26.2689° East, latitude 45.5447° North, depth = 133.536 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 133.536 km (83 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tudor Vladimirescu, Corbasca, Bereşti-Tazlău (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Romania (c. 21 959 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Braşov (c. 276 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ploieşti (c. 228 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Buzău (c. 131 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Focşani (c. 105 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Târgovişte (c. 88 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Sfântu-Gheorghe (c. 60 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Câmpina (c. 41 600 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 6 km N of Cașoca, Romania.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.2689° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.5447° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 133.536 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km N of Cașoca, Romania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-16 14:40:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-16 15:01:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 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 418 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 121 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.234 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 19 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000ne92 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ne92 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ne92, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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