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Seismologist Duni: An aftershock, no reason for panic

TIRANA, Dec 15 /ATA/- “The earthquake that hit yesterday was an aftershock and there is no reason for panic,” seismologist Llambro Duni said.

Seismologist Duni said that it is a matter of aftershocks, we have said it before that they will continue and there is no reason for panic.

“The tremor did not measure 4.5 on Richter scale as reported by seismological centre EMSC, it measured 4.0 on Richter scale according to local magnitude,” – Duni said.
According to him, the tremor lasted 5 seconds.

Yesterday evening at around 02:20 am an earthquake struck again. It is an aftershock in the aftermath of November 26 earthquake. The depth was 10 km, the epicentre was 6 km north of Shijak and 22 km west of Tirana.
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