An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 occurred on Monday afternoon in the Vrancea seismic zone, at 17:40. The earthquake was felt across the country.
Initially, the INCDFP had announced that the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.5.
“On 16.09.2024, 17:40:21 (Romanian time), a significant earthquake occurred in the seismic zone of Vrancea, Buzău, with a magnitude of ML 5.2, at a depth of 140 km”, announces the National Research and Development Institute for Earth Physics.
Initially, the INCDFP had announced that the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.5. “On 16.09.2024, 17:40:21 (Romanian time), a significant earthquake occurred in the seismic zone of Vrancea, Buzău, with a magnitude of ML 5.2, at a depth of 140 km”, announces the National Research and Development Institute for Earth Physics.
The earthquake that occurred on Monday afternoon, with a magnitude of 5.4, is part of the normal seismic activity of the Vrancea area, where such an earthquake can occur every two years, Constantin Ionescu, the director, said for Agerpres general of the National Research – Development Institute for Earth Physics (INFP).
“The earthquake had a magnitude of 5.4 and the intensity in the epicenter of W. It occurred at a depth of 126 kilometers, with 100 stations included in the localization. This was also felt in Bucharest, it was much more strongly felt in Moldova, in Chisinau. The earthquake is part of the normal seismic activity of the Vrancea area, where at least once every two years there is an earthquake with a magnitude above 5. We had a bigger one in 2018, of 5.8, one of 5.4 in 2022. For now there is no reply. If there were replicas, they should have been produced by now,” said Ionescu.
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