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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Shijak in Albania

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Shijak in Albania on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/07/18 / 2018-07-05 22:49:01 / July 5, 2018 @ 10:49 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 19.491 East, latitude 41.4536 North, depth = 11.77 km. Id of earthquake: us2000fxwb. Event ids that are associated: us2000fxwb. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.77 km (7 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:49:01 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Berat, Patos Fshat, Centar Župa. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km NNW of Shijak, Albania. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	19.491° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.4536° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km 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	2018-07-05 22:49:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-05 23:13:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	287	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	0.299	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	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	us2000fxwb	Id of event.
Event Code	2000fxwb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000fxwb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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