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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Durres in Albania


Earthquake location 41.52S, 19.4349WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Durres in Albania. The temblor was picked up at 18:19:13 / 6:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/11/19 / 2019-11-26 17:19:13 / November 26, 2019 @ 5:19 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 19.4349 East, latitude 41.52 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us70006daj. Event ids that are associated: us70006daj.

Country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Patos Fshat, Budva, (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Centar Župa (c. 45 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km N of Durres, Albania. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.4349° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.52° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km N of Durres, Albania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-26 17:19:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-26 19:47:28 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 340 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 0.918 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us70006daj Id of event.
Event Code 70006daj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006daj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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