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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 16 km WSW of Mamurras, Albania


Earthquake location 41.5042S, 19.5189WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Mamurras in Albania on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us7000cnkw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cnkw. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/20 / 2020-12-06 07:19:43 / December 6, 2020 @ 7:19 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 19.5189° East, 41.5042° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:19:43 / 7:19 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Berat (c. 46 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kukës, Patos Fshat, Berat.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 16 km WSW of Mamurras, Albania.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.5189° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.5042° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km WSW 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 2020-12-06 07:19:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-06 07:43:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 326 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 0.944 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us7000cnkw Id of event.
Event Code 7000cnkw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cnkw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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