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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Korce in Albania

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Korce in Albania on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 15:21:21 / 3:21 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us60004xyi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004xyi. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/07/19 / 2019-07-31 14:21:21 / July 31, 2019 @ 2:21 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 20.753° East, 40.5387° North.

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). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Peqin, , Krivogashtani (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Bitola (c. 86 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ohrid (c. 54 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Berat (c. 46 900 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Lushnjë (c. 41 500 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km SSW of Korce, Albania.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.753° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.5387° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SSW of Korce, Albania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-31 14:21:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-31 21:00:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.6	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	355	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	0.537	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	us60004xyi	Id of event.
Event Code	60004xyi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60004xyi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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