Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Spulber in Romania

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Spulber in Romania on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/08/25 / 2025-08-24 04:15:16 / August 24, 2025 @ 4:15 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 113.298 km (70 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:15:16 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 26.7571 East, latitude 45.7242 North, depth = 113.298 km. Event id: us6000r3fc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r3fc.

Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Braşov (c. 276 100 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Bacău (c. 171 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Buzău (c. 131 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Focşani (c. 105 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Bârlad (c. 67 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sfântu-Gheorghe (c. 60 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bacău, Agăş, Hălchiu. Country/countries that might be effected, Romania (c. 21 959 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km S of Spulber, Romania. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.7571° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.7242° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	113.298 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km S of Spulber, Romania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-24 04:15:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-10 02:15:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.616	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.01 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	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	us6000r3fc	Id of event.
Event Code	6000r3fc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000r3fc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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