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On 8 April 2017 (GMT 13:53) a moderate Ms5.2 earthquake sequence burst in the Kurbnesh-Skavica tectonic fault zone. The main shock was located 3 km in north of Kurbnesh town and 54 km NNE of Tirana city and was felt over a larger area from northen to southen Albania. The Kurbnesh-Skavica tectonic fault zone is exposed on the ground at a length of about 35 km, according to the SW-NE direction. This tectonic segment is part of Ulza-Kurbnesh-Kukes-Prizren seismogenic fault zone. For this analysis, the local and regional data concerning the epicentral locations, focal mechanisms, macroseismic data of the April 2017 earthquake were used. The focal mechanisms of the mainshocks, indicate that deformation is taken up by NE-SW trending normal faults with strike-slip elements. Analysis of this earthquake and some other recently moderate earthquakes and also of seismic activity shed light on the seismotectonics of the area and the stress field. The Kurbnesh-Skavica transversal fault zone presents a threat to the nearby urban areas.

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2019-09-18
2024-04-25

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The april 2017 MS5.2 kurbneshi earthquake and its seismogenic zone
Conference Proceedings 2019, 1 (2019); https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201902650
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