What the records say
- When
- 10 Nov 1940
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.3
- Where
- Romania
- Coordinates
- 45.80° N, 26.80° E
- Deaths
- 1000
- Damage musd
- 10
- Intensity mmi
- 10
- Depth km
- 150
3 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1940 Vrancea earthquake: An earthquake in Romania kills 1,000”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Карпатское землетресение”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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