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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 10 km WNW of Orikum, Albania

Posted by admin on April 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.3558S, 19.3573WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Orikum in Albania. Exact location of earthquake, 19.3573° East, 40.3558° North, depth 10 km. Id of earthquake: us20005k9u. Event ids that are associated: us20005k9u. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/04/16 / 2016-04-19 08:19:43 / April 19, 2016 @ 8:19 am. The temblor was reported at 10:19:43 / 10:19 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) from Vlorë (c. 89 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Berat (c. 46 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Lushnjë (c. 41 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Peqin, Sarandë, Çorovodë (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 10 km WNW of Orikum, Albania.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.3573° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3558° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km WNW of Orikum, Albania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-19 08:19:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-20 20:56:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 178 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 0.154 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005k9u Id of event.
Event Code 20005k9u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005k9u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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