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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Pogradec in Albania

Posted by admin on July 22, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.9414S, 20.6652WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Pogradec in Albania. Global time and date of event 07/07/24 / 2024-07-07 12:07:57 / July 7, 2024 @ 12:07 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.431 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mxl8. Id of event: us7000mxl8. Exact location of event, longitude 20.6652 East, latitude 40.9414 North, depth = 9.431 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:07:57 / 12:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Bitola (c. 86 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Prilep (c. 73 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 23 km (14 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). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vrutok, Burrel, Patos Fshat (min 5000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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: 4 km NNE of Pogradec, Albania. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.6652° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.9414° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.431 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km NNE of Pogradec, Albania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-07 12:07:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-22 05:41:52 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 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.729 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us7000mxl8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mxl8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mxl8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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