Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Kruje in Albania

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Kruje in Albania. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.92 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:15:16 / 3:15 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20009p9q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009p9q. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/06/17 / 2017-06-23 14:15:16 / June 23, 2017 @ 2:15 pm. Exact location of event, depth 25.92 km, 19.8855° East, 41.4599° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kičevo, Dragash, Zajas. The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 9 km SE of Kruje, Albania.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	19.8855° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.4599° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.92 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SE of Kruje, Albania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-23 14:15:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-30 07:49:56	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	259	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	0.113	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us20009p9q	Id of event.
Event Code	20009p9q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20009p9q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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