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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 6 km NNW of Shijak, Albania


Earthquake location 41.399S, 19.5379WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Shijak in Albania on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 19.5379 East, latitude 41.399 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 03:59:24 / 3:59 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006d1f. Unique identifier: us70006d1f. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/11/19 / 2019-11-26 02:59:24 / November 26, 2019 @ 2:59 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kukës, Vlorë, Delogožda. Event epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Vlorë (c. 89 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km NNW of Shijak, Albania. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.5379° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.399° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNW of Shijak, 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 02:59:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-26 04:08:39 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 400 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 1.05 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us70006d1f Id of event.
Event Code 70006d1f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006d1f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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