Medium-intensity earthquake shakes Bucharest and Eastern Romania
<p>An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 shook Romania’s capital Bucharest and parts of Eastern Romania on Monday afternoon, September 16, around 17:40. No damages were reported after the event.</p>

<p>According to the <a href="https://infp.ro/">National Institute for Earth’s Physics (INFP)</a>, the earthquake occurred in the Vrancea seismic area, some 56 km North-West of Buzau and 59 km East of Brasov, at a depth of 126.8 km.</p>

<p>The earthquake was also felt in Eastern Romania, as far as Iasi, Bacau, Vaslui, Galati and Constanta.</p>

<p>This was the strongest earthquake in the Vrancea seismic area in almost two years, with a similar 5.4 magnitude earthquake reported in November 2022.</p>

<p>The strongest earthquake in Romania was reported on February 2, 2023 in Gorj county, 14 km North-West of Targu Jiu. It had a magnitude of 5.7 on the Richter scale. However, that was part of a longer series of medium-intensity surface earthquakes that shook the region in early-2023.</p>

<p>In the last ten years, the strongest earthquakes in the Vrancea region, also felt in Bucharest, were recorded on October 28, 2018 (5.8 magnitude) and November 22, 2024 (5.7 magnitude).</p>

<p><em>editor@romania-insider.com</em></p>

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