Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Durres in Albania

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Durres in Albania. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us60006paf. Unique identifier: us60006paf. Exact location of earthquake, 19.4649° East, 41.2361° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 03:19:16 / 3:19 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/11/19 / 2019-11-26 02:19:16 / November 26, 2019 @ 2:19 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shkodër, Poliçan, Vlorë (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Vlorë (c. 89 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km SSE of Durres, Albania.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	19.4649° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.2361° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SSE of Durres, Albania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-11-26 02:19:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-18 01:42:28	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	284	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	1.202	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us60006paf	Id of event.
Event Code	60006paf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60006paf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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