Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Mamurras in Albania

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Mamurras in Albania. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:45:24 / 3:45 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006dsc. Unique identifier: us70006dsc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/11/19 / 2019-11-27 14:45:24 / November 27, 2019 @ 2:45 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.61 km (8 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 19.4661° East, 41.5382° North, depth 12.61 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Struga, Ballsh, Cetinje (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Montenegro (c. 667 000 pop). Event epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Podgorica (c. 136 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	19.4661° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.5382° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km WSW of Mamurras, Albania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-11-27 14:45:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-27 15:03:48	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	434	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	0.903	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us70006dsc	Id of event.
Event Code	70006dsc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006dsc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

19.4661° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

41.5382° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

12.61 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

19km WSW of Mamurras, Albania

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2019-11-27 14:45:24

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-11-27 15:03:48

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

3.4

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

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

434

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.903

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.97 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

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

us70006dsc

Id of event.

Event Code

70006dsc

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us70006dsc,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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