Earthquake

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An earthquake a minute ago woke us all up here. I do not know how strong it was but everything was moving quite a bit and there was quite a bit of noise as well. I think it was quite short, shorter than a minute. Some people went outside but we stayed in and I am going back to sleep shortly. People are worried about repeats and are saying that they often come in batches here.

Update: I found it on earthquaketrack, it was 5.6 magnitude (Romanians are reporting 6.1 magnitude) earthquake 5 km from Nereju Mic, Vrancea, Romania.

Comments

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Wow..I hope everyone is ok.  5.6 is a strong one. 

Athena

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Yeah, everything is OK here, there was no damage. We went back to sleep and it was nice and calm for the rest of the night.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

That's good.  Even a 5.6 can do damage.  I'm glad everyone is ok. 

Were there any after shocks? 

Athena

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No, there were no aftershocks (at least not anything noticeable). Our volunteers who experienced it for the first time are so excited, they can't stop speaking about it all day to today.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

I can understand the excitement.  We rarely get earthquakes here where I am.  I think the last one we had was back in the 80s somewhere and it was only 3.0 or something small.  People talked about it for a few days after. 

Athena

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They had one of comparable magnitude every 2 - 4 years since 2004 here. Before the one in 2004 they had none for 14 years but the one before that (in 1990) was over 7.0 magnitude.