What the records say
- When
- 22 May 2012
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.6
- Where
- Bulgaria
- Coordinates
- 42.65° N, 22.97° E
- Intensity mmi
- 7
- Depth km
- 10
2012 Pernik earthquake
Earthquake in Bulgaria
The 2012 Pernik earthquake was a 5.6 Mw magnitude earthquake, which struck 24 km west of Bulgaria's capital Sofia and 9 km north-northwest of the provincial center Pernik on 22 May 2012 at 3:00 am local time at a depth of 9.4 kilometers (5.8 mi).
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck 24 km west of Bulgaria's capital Sofia, at a depth of 9.4 km”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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