Earthquake shakes Hungary

The National Directorate General for Disaster Management reported to the Hungarian News Agency (MTI) that an earthquake shook Dunaújváros, in the county of Fejér, on Saturday evening.

Earthquake shook Dunaújváros

According to the authorities, the epicentre of the tremors was about 15 kilometres from the town of about 45,000 inhabitants, with a magnitude of 2.6 on the Richter scale. No reports of damage have been received by the authorities, Portfolio reports.

The Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (Földfizikai és Űrtudományi Kutatóintézet) detected a weak earthquake of magnitude 2.6 in the Dunaújváros area at half past seven on Saturday evening, just crossing the 2 magnitude mark of the observation threshold of the Hungarian network. The population near the epicentre was reported to have felt the tremor slightly.

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3 Comments

  1. Who had a RESTLESS night and FELL out of Bed, in a “former” Carmelite Monastery ???

  2. 2.6? That won’t even qualify to appear on the US Geological Survey maps, which start at 3.0. Just driving on most Hungarian roads will shake you much more than this.

  3. 2.6? That won’t even qualify to appear on the US Geological Survey maps, which start at 3.0. Just driving on most Hungarian roads will shake you much more than this.

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