Romania

ROU · 2024 energy mix · renewables 17.6% · fossil fuels 73.3%

Threat reading 15 of 100, classified STABLE. 1 events recorded here in the last seven days, 1 in the last thirty.

That number is computed from live feeds and moves. The live monitor is where to read it as of right now.

Where its energy comes from

Oil39.2%
Gas26.9%
Hydro9.6%
Nuclear7.6%
Coal7.2%
Wind4.4%
Solar3.2%
Other renewables0.4%

In 2024, renewables accounted for 17.6% and fossil fuels for 73.3%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Romania is close to balanced on electricity trade.

Sources under one per cent of the mix are left out of the table rather than listed as a row of zeroes. Percentages are shares of a country's primary energy, not of the power it generates.

Recorded history

NOAA's hazard records hold 15 significant earthquakes in or just off Romania since 1516.

The deadliest was the 4 March 1977 magnitude 7.5 earthquake (Romania: Bucharest), which killed 1,641 people.

The most recent entry is the 27 October 2004 magnitude 5.8 earthquake (Romania: Bucharest, Braila; Bulgaria: Northern).

Across the entries that record a death toll, 2,701 people died.

DateWhatWhereToll
4 March 1977magnitude 7.5 earthquakeRomania: Bucharest1,641 dead, $2,000 million damage
10 November 1940magnitude 7.3 earthquakeRomania1,000 dead, $10 million damage
23 January 1838magnitude 6.9 earthquakeRomania: Carpathian Fold, Vrancea42 dead, damage $1 to 5 million
30 May 1990magnitude 6.7 earthquakeRomania: Bucharest, Braila, Brasov14 dead, $24 million damage
30 August 1986magnitude 6.9 earthquakeRomania: Bucharest, Kishinev-kagul2 dead, $730 million damage
12 July 1991magnitude 5.6 earthquakeRomania: Banloc, Deta, Timisoara2 dead, damage under $1 million
26 October 1802magnitude 7.4 earthquakeRomania: Carpathian Fold, Vranceadamage $1 to 5 million
15 October 1834magnitude 6.8 earthquakeHungary: Pishkol't, Erendreyd, Dengelegdamage $5 to 25 million
17 November 1821magnitude 6.7 earthquakeRomania; Moldovadamage under $1 million
31 May 1990magnitude 6.1 earthquakeRomania: Kishinev, Cisdamage under $1 million
27 October 2004magnitude 5.8 earthquakeRomania: Bucharest, Braila; Bulgaria: Northerndamage under $1 million
18 July 1991magnitude 5.6 earthquakeRomania: Orsavadamage $1 to 5 million
2 December 1991magnitude 5.5 earthquakeRomania: Voiteg, Deta, Banlocdamage $1 to 5 million
26 November 1829earthquakeRomania: Bucharestdamage $5 to 25 million
24 November 1516earthquakeRomania-

A dash means NOAA recorded no number, not that nobody died. Older entries are fewer because fewer were written down, not because less happened.

Recorded history: NOAA NCEI hazard databases, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-22.

In the last 30 days

The most recent events our feeds placed in Romania:

What the threat reading is made of

Conflict0
Unrest0
Security15
Spillover from neighbours15
Natural hazard0
Resilience79

Each is 0 to 100. Resilience runs the other way to the rest: a high number is a country better able to absorb a shock, not a country in more trouble.

Other countries tracked

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Where the data comes from

Energy mix, 2024: Our World in Data, energy dataset (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), compiled by Pablo Rosado, Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. Licence: Our World in Data's own compilation is CC BY 4.0. The underlying figures stay under their original terms: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, U.S. EIA, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. The percentages shown here and the wording are ours. Threat reading: computed by Rift Web from the feeds listed on the sources page.