M 4.6 in Romania on 03 Dec 2023 22:05 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 1403771
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 139.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 45.5524 , 26.3388
Event Date: 03 Dec 2023 22:05 UTC
04 Dec 2023 00:05 Local
Exposed Population:
3.7 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 03 Dec 2023 22:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000lfzn Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

SOCAR Says Its Operations Unaffected By Earthquake 12/7/2023 2:27:00 PM.

- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 7. The operations of Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR remain unaffected by the earthquake that occurred in the country today, the company told Trend. SOCAR said that the morning earthquake
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SOCAR says its operations unaffected by earthquake 12/7/2023 1:07:00 PM.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 7. The operations of Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR remain unaffected by the earthquake that occurred in the country today, the company told Trend. SOCAR said that the morning earthquake did not result in an
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Second earthquake in a week hits eastern Serbia 12/7/2023 10:09:00 AM.

The second earthquake in less than a week shook eastern Serbia on Thursday, the Seismological Survey of Serbia said. “The Seismological Survey of Serbia recorded an earthquake at Petrovac na Mlavi region on On 07.12.2023., at 04:45 local
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Breaking News: Moderate Earthquake Strikes Vrancea-Buzau Seismic Zone 12/5/2023 1:05:00 AM.

Institutul Na?ional de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Fizica Pamântului (INCDFP) Report. Bucharest, Romania – December 4, 2023. At 00:05:48 EET on December 4, 2023, a moderate earthquake with a magnitude of ML 4.8 struck the seismic zone of Vr
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),