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Originally Posted by Hud3
There was a small earthquake near Bucharest last night. It wasn't very big, but who knows what kind of noises it might have made.
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Here's the data on last night's event:
Magnitude ML 2.5
Region ROMANIA
Date time 2013-08-27 19:50:44.2 UTC
Location 45.78 N ; 26.75 E
Depth 78 km
Distances 158 km N of Bucharest, Romania / pop: 1,877,155 / local time: 22:50:44.2 2013-08-27
34 km W of Focşani, Romania / pop: 105,112 / local time: 22:50:44.2 2013-08-27
2 km E of Paltin, Romania / pop: 3,687 / local time: 22:50:44.2 2013-08-27
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I was in a minor earthquake, in southern Illinois of all places, in 1968 or '69. We heard a loud bang as the earth moved, before the motion waves even got to us. There was a Norge factory about 10 miles away in Herron, IL, and for a second (before the ground started shaking) we thought maybe there had been an explosion there.
The
hull of your boat would magnify that sound, and if you were in your
cabin at the time, I can imagine that the
noise would be both startling and concerning.