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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Memaliaj in Albania

Posted by admin on May 27, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.3635S, 19.7586WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Memaliaj in Albania. Unique identifier: us1000ecwr. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ecwr. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/05/18 / 2018-05-27 06:33:30 / May 27, 2018 @ 6:33 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 19.7586 East, latitude 40.3635 North, depth = 16.93 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.93 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 07:33:30 / 7:33 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rrogozhinë, Ersekë, Cërrik (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Vlorë (c. 89 500 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Berat (c. 46 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Lushnjë (c. 41 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 18 km W of Memaliaj, Albania.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.7586° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3635° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km W of Memaliaj, Albania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-27 06:33:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-27 23:08:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 189 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 0.226 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 84 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000ecwr Id of event.
Event Code 1000ecwr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ecwr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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