Albania

Earthquakes in Albania, 2017–2026

From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 65 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Albania. The strongest was a magnitude 6.4 on November 26, 2019 (15 km WSW of Mamurras, Albania).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 51 deaths for it. 4 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 2 of the events here, 52 in all. 2019 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 34 of the 65. 19 came in the 30 days after the strongest, within 150 km of it. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.5 on January 13, 2024 (7 km NE of Lushnjë, Albania).

The events

  • January 13, 2024Earthquake · M 4.57 km NE of Lushnjë, Albania · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • November 26, 2019Earthquake · M 6.415 km WSW of Mamurras, Albania · 51 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • November 26, 2019Earthquake · M 5.522 km W of Mamurras, AlbaniaUSGS
  • November 26, 2019Earthquake · M 5.33 km NNW of Vorë, AlbaniaUSGS
  • September 21, 2019Earthquake · M 5.63 km WSW of Shijak, AlbaniaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • February 5, 2019Earthquake · M 5.416 km SW of Néos Oropós, GreeceUSGS

Good to know

  • An event counts for Albania when it began inside its borders, or at sea within 100 km of its coast (so one can count for two neighbours), or further out, up to 300 km, where Albania is the nearest country.
  • USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
  • 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.
  • The map frames the box around Albania, its neighbours’ quakes included, so its count runs higher than this page’s.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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