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title: "Romania: Earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 in the Vrancea area"
url: https://radiomoldova.md/p/5355/romania-earthquake-with-a-magnitude-of-4-5-in-the-vrancea-area
published: 2023-02-06T07:56:50Z
language: en
author: "Ionela Golban"
section: "International"
source: radiomoldova.md
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# Romania: Earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 in the Vrancea area

> A surface earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 on the Richter scale occurred on Monday morning, at 3:26 local time, in the Vrancea seismic zone, Buzău county, followed by three other earthquakes with smaller magnitudes, respectively of 2.6, 2.9 and 2.7 on Richter, according to the National Research - Development Institute for Earth Physics (INCDFP), reports Agerpres.

A surface earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 on the Richter scale occurred on Monday morning, at 3:26 local time, in the Vrancea seismic zone, Buzău county, followed by three other earthquakes with smaller magnitudes, respectively of 2.6, 2.9 and 2.7 on Richter, according to the National Research - Development Institute for Earth Physics (INCDFP), reports Agerpres.

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Since the beginning of January, there have been five earthquakes in Romania, with magnitudes between 2 and 4.5 on the Richter scale.
The largest earthquake of 2022 occurred on November 3 and had a magnitude of 5.4, while in 2021 an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale was recorded on May 26.