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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Mamurras in Albania

Posted by admin on November 28, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.5566S, 19.4112WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Mamurras in Albania. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/11/19 / 2019-11-28 10:52:42 / November 28, 2019 @ 10:52 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us70006e5g. Event ids that are associated: us70006e5g. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:52:42 / 11:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 19.4112 East, latitude 41.5566 North, depth = 10 km.

Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Podgorica (c. 136 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kukës, Cetinje, Gramsh (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Montenegro (c. 667 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 23 km W of Mamurras, Albania. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.4112° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.5566° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km W of Mamurras, Albania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-28 10:52:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-28 11:06:30 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 369 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 0.879 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us70006e5g Id of event.
Event Code 70006e5g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006e5g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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