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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Shëngjin in Albania

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Earthquake location 41.6299S, 19.3512WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Shëngjin in Albania. Event id: us6000nf22. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nf22. Exact location, longitude 19.3512° East, latitude 41.6299° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/07/24 / 2024-07-24 00:42:06 / July 24, 2024 @ 12:42 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:42:06 / 12:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Montenegro (c. 667 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Podgorica (c. 136 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Durrës (c. 122 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lushnjë (c. 41 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Kavajë (c. 29 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Debar, Librazhd-Qendër, Cetinje.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 28 km SW of Shëngjin, Albania.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.3512° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.6299° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km SW of Shëngjin, Albania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-24 00:42:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-24 01:06:12 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 340 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 92 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.477 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us6000nf22 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nf22 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nf22, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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