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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 7 km SSW of Orikum, Albania


Earthquake location 40.26S, 19.4524WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Orikum in Albania. Exact location, longitude 19.4524° East, latitude 40.26° North, depth = 13.17 km. Unique identifier: us2000dxsn. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dxsn. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:17:07 / 2:17 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/04/18 / 2018-04-10 13:17:07 / April 10, 2018 @ 1:17 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.17 km (8 miles).

Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Vlorë (c. 89 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Berat (c. 46 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Lushnjë (c. 41 500 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gramsh, Peqin, Kérkyra (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km SSW of Orikum, Albania. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.4524° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.26° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SSW 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 2018-04-10 13:17:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-10 21:37:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 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 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 0.211 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us2000dxsn Id of event.
Event Code 2000dxsn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dxsn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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