M 4.5 in Romania on 07 Dec 2014 21:04 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1044651
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 38 Km
Lat/Lon: 45.91 , 27.17
Event Date: 07 Dec 2014 21:04 UTC
07 Dec 2014 23:04 Local
Exposed Population:
3139800 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Dec 2014 07:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=412100 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Vrancha. “The quake of magnitude 4.6 in Richter scale registered in Romania is aftershok of the earthquake of November 22,” Rumyana Glavcheva, seismologist, corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Science and Arts (BASA), former he
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New earthquake in Romania 12/8/2014 9:39:00 AM.

. An earthquake with the magnitude of 4.5 degrees on the Richter scale took place in the Vrancea seismic area of Romania on Sunday, at 23:04, according to the National Institute for Research in Earth’s Physics (INCDFP). This came just two w
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Magnitude 4.4 quake hits eastern Romania 12/7/2014 11:40:00 PM.

BUCHAREST, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck Romania's eastern county of Vrancea on Sunday night, announced the National Institute for Earth Physics. The earthquake's focus was at 38 kilometers depth with its epicenter lo
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Cutremur crustal moderat în Vrancea – Moderate crustal earthquake – Ro.. 11/23/2014 11:24:00 PM.

Iasi - It swayed the chair under me and the windows rattled. sliven - 2 or 3 shakes about 5-6 sex long; Bucharest - Water in fish tanked moved. Bulbs on the ceiling still moving. Varna - Very weak shaking for about 10 seconds. Magurele, Ilf
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),