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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Nereju in Romania

Posted by admin on August 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 45.7116S, 26.7289WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Nereju in Romania. Id of earthquake: us1000gfg4. Event ids that are associated: us1000gfg4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 131.44 km (82 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/08/18 / 2018-08-22 14:52:45 / August 22, 2018 @ 2:52 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 16:52:45 / 4:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 26.7289° East, latitude 45.7116° North, depth = 131.44 km.

Close country/countries, Romania (c. 21 959 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Urlaţi, Colceag, Feldioara (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Braşov (c. 276 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Buzău (c. 131 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Focşani (c. 105 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Sfântu-Gheorghe (c. 60 700 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Tecuci (c. 41 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Râmnicu Sărat (c. 38 500 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km ESE of Nereju, Romania. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.7289° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.7116° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 131.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km ESE of Nereju, Romania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-22 14:52:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-24 07:49:58 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 246 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 0.234 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us1000gfg4 Id of event.
Event Code 1000gfg4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gfg4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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