4.3 Earthquake Shakes Romania's Vrancea near Bulgaria

An earthquake with a 4.3 magnitude on the Richter scale has been registered in Romania's region of Vrancea, some 380 km northeast of Bulgaria's capital Sofia.

The magnitude was registered by the US Geological Survey and the epicenter is at a depth of 109 km.

According to the Geophysics Institute in the city of Potsdam, Germany, the magnitude was 4.0 and the depth – 95 km.

There are no reports of casualties, injuries or material damage unlike the 7.6-magnitude Vrancea earthquake from March 1977 that killed 1 600 persons in Romania and Bulgaria, and damaged 8 500 buildings. The Bulgarian casualties in the town of Svishtov were 120.