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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Erseke in Albania


Earthquake location 40.3878S, 20.6098WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Erseke in Albania on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 06:33:01 / 6:33 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/02/18 / 2018-02-17 05:33:01 / February 17, 2018 @ 5:33 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000d3r4. Event ids that are associated: us2000d3r4. Exact location, longitude 20.6098° East, latitude 40.3878° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Librazhd-Qendër, Elbasan, (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Ohrid (c. 54 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Berat (c. 46 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Struga (c. 37 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km NW of Erseke, Albania. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.6098° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3878° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NW of Erseke, Albania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-17 05:33:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-17 06:14:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 284 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.271 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000d3r4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d3r4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d3r4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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