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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Sanandrei in Romania


Earthquake location 45.8877S, 21.1683WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Sanandrei in Romania on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/03/16 / 2016-03-18 21:58:18 / March 18, 2016 @ 9:58 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:58:18 / 11:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 4.5 km, 21.1683° East, 45.8877° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20005bah. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005bah.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chişineu-Criş, Elek, Bocşa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Hungary (c. 9 982 000 pop), Romania (c. 21 959 000 pop), Serbia (c. 7 345 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 16 km (10 miles) from Timişoara (c. 315 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Arad (c. 169 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Lugoj (c. 43 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Kikinda (c. 41 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Makó (c. 25 100 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km N of Sanandrei, Romania.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.1683° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.8877° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km N of Sanandrei, Romania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-18 21:58:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-20 21:18:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 130 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005bah Id of event.
Event Code 20005bah An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005bah, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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