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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Gura Teghii in Romania


Earthquake location 45.5492S, 26.3751WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Gura Teghii in Romania. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:15:04 / 3:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 152.35 km (95 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cfna. Id of event: us1000cfna. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/18 / 2018-02-04 13:15:04 / February 4, 2018 @ 1:15 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 26.3751 East, latitude 45.5492 North, depth = 152.35 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Baraolt, Târgu Ocna, Târgu Trotuş (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Braşov (c. 276 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ploieşti (c. 228 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Buzău (c. 131 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Focşani (c. 105 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Sfântu-Gheorghe (c. 60 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Câmpina (c. 41 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Romania (c. 21 959 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km NNW of Gura Teghii, Romania. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.3751° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.5492° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 152.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NNW of Gura Teghii, Romania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-04 13:15:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-04 15:12:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 188 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 0.134 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000cfna Id of event.
Event Code 1000cfna An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cfna, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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