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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Konispol in Albania

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Konispol in Albania on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, 20.2505° East, 39.716° North, depth 38.666 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.666 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nhd6. Id of event: us7000nhd6. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/10/24 / 2024-10-01 04:14:25 / October 1, 2024 @ 4:14 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:14:25 / 4:14 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Sarandë (c. 15 100 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Çorovodë (c. 14 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Árta, Çorovodë, Ersekë (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 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 two 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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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: 8 km NE of Konispol, Albania.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.2505° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.716° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.666 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km NE of Konispol, Albania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-01 04:14:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-02 04:58:28	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	259	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	49	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.417	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	107	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	us7000nhd6	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nhd6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nhd6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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