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28 October 2018

ALERT: mb 5.5 ROMANIA 20 km SE Covasna 28/10/2018 00:38 (UTC)

Centre Sismologique Euro-Mediterraneen
European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre

Rapid Determination of Source Parameters
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WARNING : These parameters are preliminary and subject to revision.
Location and magnitude estimations may be revised if necessary in
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EARTHQUAKE on 28/10/2018 at 00:38 (UTC)
ROMANIA 20 km SE Covasna

MAGNITUDE: mb 5.5

Data provided by: BEO BUC BUD GFZ KAN LED LJU MAD NEWS SC3
ZAMG

Latitude = 45.75 N
Longitude = 26.40 E
Origin Time = 00:38:10.6 (UTC)
Depth = 153 Km
RMS = 1.34 sec
Gap = 27 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 5.4 Km
- Semi minor = 3.4 Km
- Azimuth of major axis = 39 degrees

Number of data used = 242

Preliminary location computed on Sun Oct 28 00:49:26 2018 (UTC)
Done by S Godey

Comments :

Message number: 2699

All magnitudes estimations :
ML5.7 (BEO) Ml5.7 (BUC) M 5.8 (BUD) M 5.4 (GFZ)
Mb5.9 (KAN) MB6.0 (LED) ML4.1 (LJU) Mb5.4 (MAD)
M 5.4 (SC3) Mb5.3 (ZAMG)

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