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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 1 km WSW of Gura Teghii, Romania

Posted by admin on March 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 45.478S, 26.4WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Gura Teghii in Romania. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:23:36 / 10:23 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us60008dxj. Event ids that are associated: us60008dxj. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 26.4 East, latitude 45.478 North, depth = 119.63 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 119.63 km (74 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/03/20 / 2020-03-11 20:23:36 / March 11, 2020 @ 8:23 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Braşov (c. 276 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ploieşti (c. 228 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Buzău (c. 131 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Focşani (c. 105 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Sfântu-Gheorghe (c. 60 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Câmpina (c. 41 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Romania (c. 21 959 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Munteni, Bărbuleţu, Dofteana.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 1 km WSW of Gura Teghii, Romania.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.4° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.478° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 119.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km WSW 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 2020-03-11 20:23:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-11 20:34:18 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 298 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 0.32 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us60008dxj Id of event.
Event Code 60008dxj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008dxj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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