Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Bulqize in Albania

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Bulqize in Albania on Wednesday. Unique identifier: us10008ut6. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008ut6. Exact location, longitude 20.2392° East, latitude 41.5619° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 11:30:58 / 11:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/05/17 / 2017-05-24 10:30:58 / May 24, 2017 @ 10:30 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Prizren (c. 171 500 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Gjakovë (c. 94 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tetovo (c. 72 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Krivogashtani, Mamuša, Ulcinj (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop), Kosovo (c. 1 800 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km N of Bulqize, Albania. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.2392° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.5619° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km N of Bulqize, Albania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-24 10:30:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-24 10:52:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	328	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	0.354	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	28	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	us10008ut6	Id of event.
Event Code	10008ut6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008ut6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

20.2392° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

41.5619° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

7km N of Bulqize, Albania

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2017-05-24 10:30:58

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-05-24 10:52:10

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

4.1

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

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

328

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.354

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.69 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us10008ut6

Id of event.

Event Code

10008ut6

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us10008ut6,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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