Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Erseke in Albania

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Erseke in Albania on Saturday. Event id: us70003u1n. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003u1n. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:51:59 / 5:51 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 20.7156° East, latitude 40.4675° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/06/19 / 2019-06-01 04:51:59 / June 1, 2019 @ 4:51 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fier-Çifçi, Lushnjë, Anatolí. Close country/countries, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Bitola (c. 86 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Ohrid (c. 54 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Berat (c. 46 900 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 three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.7156° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4675° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km NNE 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	2019-06-01 04:51:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-01 05:10:47	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	354	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	1.032	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us70003u1n	Id of event.
Event Code	70003u1n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003u1n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.8 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

20.7156° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

40.4675° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

14km NNE 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

2019-06-01 04:51:59

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-06-01 05:10:47

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

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

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

354

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.032

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.11 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us70003u1n

Id of event.

Event Code

70003u1n

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us70003u1n,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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