Elbasan

Earthquakes near Elbasan through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 8 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Elbasan, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 7.5 on June 14, 1893 (Himara, Dhermi, Kuc, Kudhesi, Vlore, Kanina).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Elbasan in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: an estimated magnitude 6.6 on October 12, 1851 (Vlore (Valona),Berat; Turkey), for which NOAA records 2,000 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 43 here, back to 59 BCE. NOAA records deaths in 15 of the events here, 2,802 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.5 on January 13, 2024 (7 km NE of Lushnjë, Albania). NOAA’s record here begins in 59 BCE with an earthquake (Dyrrachium). It grows thinner going back: 20 of the 43 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists 11 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Elbasan. The highest of them reached 0.66 m, on October 12, 1851.

The events

  • January 13, 2024Earthquake · M 4.57 km NE of Lushnjë, Albania · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • June 14, 1893Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)Himara, Dhermi, Kuc, Kudhesi, Vlore, KaninaNOAA NCEI
  • October 12, 1851Earthquake · M 6.6 (est.)Vlore (Valona),Berat; Turkey · 2,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • October 12, 1851Tsunami · 0.66 m highAlbanian CoastsNOAA NCEI
  • AD 346Earthquake · M 6.8 (est.)Durres (Dyrrachium)NOAA NCEI
  • 59 BCEEarthquake · M 6.6 (est.)DyrrachiumNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Elbasan when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
  • USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
  • NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
  • Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
  • A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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