M 4.9 in Romania on 20 Mar 2023 14:02 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 1365821
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 45.0762 , 23.0866
Event Date: 20 Mar 2023 14:02 UTC
20 Mar 2023 16:02 Local
Exposed Population:
1 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 20 Mar 2023 14:28 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000jlf8 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, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 9 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Hapag-Lloyd: Operational and Customer Service Updates for Europe2023-03-22T23:53+0100.

Highlights: France – terminals closed for 72 hours, from March 21 to 24, 2023. Please refer to information under France for additional details and all affected vessels here. Türkiye – the Iskenderun terminal is closed due to the earthquake.
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Tremblement dans la région de Vrancha – Incidents – Le monde – NOVA ne ... 2023-03-22T10:56+0100.

Le tremblement de terre s’est produit à 56 km de Brasov. Un tremblement de terre d’une magnitude de 3,8 s’est produit ce matin dans la zone sismique de Vranca, dans le sud-est de la Roumanie, a rapporté Agerpress, citant l’Institut national
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Romania and Ukraine to organize first high-level Conference on Black S ... 2023-03-21T12:20+0100.

Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu stated on Monday in Brussels, prior to attending the meeting of the EU foreign affairs ministers - the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC), that Romania and Ukraine will jointly organize in April, the first
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ForMin Aurescu: Romania, Ukraine to organize first high-level Conferen ... 2023-03-20T21:17+0100.

Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu stated on Monday in Brussels, prior to attending the meeting of the EU foreign affairs ministers the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC), that Romania and Ukraine will jointly organize in April, the first h
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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),