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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Shijak in Albania

Posted by admin on July 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.4415S, 19.5375WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Shijak in Albania. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:01:08 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 19.5375° East, 41.4415° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/18 / 2018-07-04 09:01:08 / July 4, 2018 @ 9:01 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000fwnu. Id of event: us2000fwnu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Berat (c. 46 900 pop). Close country/countries, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Poliçan, Selenicë, Kukës (min 5000 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NNW of Shijak, Albania. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.5375° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.4415° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNW of Shijak, Albania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-04 09:01:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-04 09:32:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 12 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 390 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 0.262 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000fwnu Id of event.
Event Code 2000fwnu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fwnu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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