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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Munteni in Romania


Earthquake location 45.8961S, 27.4889WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Munteni in Romania. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009buq. Id of event: us60009buq. The temblor was picked up at 00:04:16 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 24/04/20 / 2020-04-24 22:04:16 / April 24, 2020 @ 10:04 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 27.4889 East, latitude 45.8961 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Covasna, Gârleni, Comrat (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Galaţi (c. 294 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Brăila (c. 213 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Bacău (c. 171 400 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Buzău (c. 131 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Focşani (c. 105 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Vaslui (c. 69 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Bârlad (c. 67 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Romania (c. 21 959 000 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. 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km SE of Munteni, Romania. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.4889° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.8961° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SE of Munteni, Romania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-24 22:04:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-24 22:28:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 15 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.2 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 364 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 1.155 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 16 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 us60009buq Id of event.
Event Code 60009buq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009buq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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