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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Lushnjë in Albania

Posted by admin on July 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.9526S, 19.7141WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Lushnjë in Albania. The temblor was reported at 14:16:02 / 2:16 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/07/20 / 2020-07-26 14:16:02 / July 26, 2020 @ 2:16 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 19.7141 East, latitude 40.9526 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000b4e8. Event ids that are associated: us6000b4e8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Përmet, Ohrid, Debar (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (26 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Vlorë (c. 89 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Fier-Çifçi (c. 61 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Fier (c. 56 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ohrid (c. 54 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km NNE of Lushnjë, Albania. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.7141° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.9526° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km NNE of Lushnjë, Albania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-26 14:16:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-26 15:14:52 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 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 312 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 1.24 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us6000b4e8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000b4e8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b4e8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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