StEER - 26 November, 2019 Albania, Mw 6.4 Earthquake: Event Briefing

On November 26, 2019, at approximately 3:54 am local time, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake, with a depth of 20 km, struck 12 km WSW of Mamurras, Albania. This Event Briefing (1) provides details of this earthquake, (2) describes damage to buildings and other infrastructure as well as disruption to the community, in terms of downtime and economic losses, (3) lists key lessons learned, and (4) demonstrates the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for rapidly generating brief reconnaissance reports making use of news and social media. Information provided herein was gathered from various websites, news channels, and the USGS. Therefore, this briefing does not include insights from detailed field investigations.