Albania, Vlore: 1987-2021

The Vlore cluster is named for the city of Vlorë on the coast of southern Albania. The distribution of stations for locatiuon calibration is fairly good, although few of the events in the cluster have readings from a station at near-source distance. Those events that do have close-in data were analyzed to refine the crustal velocity model and corresponding event depths. All events have depth control from near-source or local-distance readings. Nearly all events are recorded at teleseismic distances. The pattern of teleseismic travel time residuals for this cluster is unusual; beyond ~65° there are many stations with strong negative residuals. [...]