A earthquake magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Shijak in Albania. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 19.4843 East, latitude 41.4208 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70006d0m. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006d0m. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/11/19 / 2019-11-26 02:54:10 / November 26, 2019 @ 2:54 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 03:54:10 / 3:54 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tivat, Dobrota, Danilovgrad (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Montenegro (c. 667 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 115 km (71 miles) from Podgorica (c. 136 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Vlorë (c. 89 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop).
Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 10 km NW of Shijak, Albania.
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