- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- April 16, 1979 CE
- Location:
- Albania
- Magnitude:
- 4.9 Mw
- Depth:
- 8 km
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 6 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.9
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 6.9
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 6.2
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 5.3
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.8
- EMEC_2021: Mw 3.72
Other earthquake records of 1979 CE
- Colombia, Off Shore, Pacific Ocean · Mw 8.1 · 600 deaths
- Iran, Khorasan · Mw 6.6 · 171 deaths
- Balkans Nw, Montenegro · Ms 6.9 · 131 deaths
- Iran, Bonzanabad · Mw 6.5 · 129 deaths
- Indonesia, New Guinea: Irian Jaya · Ms 7.9 · 115 deaths
- Colombia, Manizales-Armenia · Mb 6.4 · 72 deaths
Source: Lammers, S., Weatherill, G., Grünthal, G. & Cotton, F. (2023): EMEC-2021 — The European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue, Version 2021. GFZ, doi:10.5880/GFZ.EMEC.2021.001 · License: CC BY 4.0 · institutional record ↗
Frequently asked questions
- When did 1979 Albania earthquake (Mw 4.9) (1979 CE) happen?
- April 16, 1979 CE.
- Where does this information come from?
- This record comes from Lammers, S., Weatherill, G., Grünthal, G. & Cotton, F. (2023): EMEC-2021 — The European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue, Version 2021. GFZ, doi:10.5880/GFZ.EMEC.2021.001; it was not hand-authored and is stored together with its source.