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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Vore in Albania

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Vore in Albania on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 20:15:08 / January 28, 2020 @ 8:15 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 21:15:08 / 9:15 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60007ifh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007ifh. Exact location, longitude 19.5304° East, latitude 41.4606° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Poliçan, Selenicë, Delogožda (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Berat (c. 46 900 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 12 km NW of Vore, Albania.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	19.5304° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.4606° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km NW of Vore, Albania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-28 20:15:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-28 20:49:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	12	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	405	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	0.989	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	21	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	us60007ifh	Id of event.
Event Code	60007ifh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007ifh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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