North-Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean and connected seas

Tsunami Information Centre

Albania

  • Collection, record, processing and analysis of earthquake data for the rapid initial assessment (locate the earthquake, the depth, the magnitude, the origin time) as a basis for the alert sy...

CENALT

CENALT (CENtre d’Alerte aux Tsunamis) is the French National Tsunami Warning Centre (NTWC) acting ...

NOA

NOA (National Observatory of Athens) is the Hellenic National Tsunami Warning Centre (NTWC) acting as...

CAT-INGV

The recently established CAT (Centro di Allerta Tsunami) at Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) will be part of the Italian National Tsunami Warn...

KOERI

KOERI (Kandilli Observatory and Earthquak...

IPMA

IPMA is the Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute (Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera).

It is a public institution, part of the indirect administrati...

Country Information
Location 41°20′N 19°48′E1
Area 28,748 km2 3
Coastline 362 km*
Climate Mild temperate with cool, cloudy, wet winters and hot, clear and dry summers.
Terrain The 70% of the country is mountainous and often inaccessible. The remainder, an alluvial plain, receives precipitation seasonally, is poorly drained, and is alternately arid or flooded.
Population 3,162,000 (2012)3
Official Languages Albanian1
Natural Hazards Drought, storm and flood2
  •  Sources : 
  • 1 Wikipedia
  • 2 Prevention web
  • 3 UN Data
  • * The World factbook
Awareness and Education Materials