Albania

Earthquakes in Albania, 1927–2026

From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 6 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more in or off Albania. None reached magnitude 7: the strongest was a magnitude 6.4, twice: on June 30, 1948 (19 km WNW of Préveza, Greece) and 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

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 5.8 on January 28, 1931 (Korce), for which NOAA records 90 deaths. 26 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 11 of the events here, 272 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.5 on January 13, 2024 (7 km NE of Lushnjë, Albania). NOAA lists one tsunami that began in or off 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
  • May 26, 2000TsunamiIonian SeaNOAA NCEI
  • May 24, 1979Earthquake · M 6.28 km WSW of Budva, MontenegroUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • May 26, 1960Earthquake · M 6.211 km SSW of Maliq, Albania · 8 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • September 1, 1959Earthquake · M 6.29 km E of Lushnjë, Albania · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • June 30, 1948Earthquake · M 6.419 km WNW of Préveza, Greece · 6 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • August 27, 1942Earthquake · M 6.0Peshkopia, Magellare · 43 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • January 28, 1931Earthquake · M 5.8Korce · 90 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI

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 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.
  • 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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