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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Vore in Albania


Earthquake location 41.4377S, 19.5611WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Vore in Albania. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:03:00 / 4:03 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70006d0w. Event ids that are associated: us70006d0w. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/11/19 / 2019-11-26 03:03:00 / November 26, 2019 @ 3:03 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 19.5611° East, 41.4377° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (15 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Vlorë (c. 89 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vlorë, Belčišta, Poliçan (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirteen 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. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 9 km WNW of Vore, Albania. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.5611° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.4377° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km WNW of Vore, 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 03:03:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-26 03:20:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 41 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.6 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 459 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 1.016 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us70006d0w Id of event.
Event Code 70006d0w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006d0w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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