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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 1 km NW of Shijak, Albania


Earthquake location 41.3571S, 19.5533WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Shijak in Albania on Thursday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:33:24 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us70006e95. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006e95. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 19.5533° East, 41.3571° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/11/19 / 2019-11-28 20:33:24 / November 28, 2019 @ 8:33 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 22 km (14 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Poliçan, Selenicë, Velesta (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 1 km NW of Shijak, Albania.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.5533° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.3571° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NW 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 2019-11-28 20:33:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-28 22:33:46 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 2.2 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 298 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 1.093 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 68 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 us70006e95 Id of event.
Event Code 70006e95 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006e95, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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