The country does not have nearly enough engineers and experts to assess all the properties that were damaged and even when the risk is known, the cost of doing needed repairs is often prohibitive in one of Europe’s poorest countries.

Prime Minister Edi Rama said recently that the government was reshaping the budget to help deal with the crisis, but that international support was desperately needed.

“Simply, it is humanly impossible to do this alone,” he said.

While Albania continues to reel, others in the region are using the moment to sound an alarm.

Walking the streets of the old city in Bucharest, visitors with a keen eye will spot red circles — just above the eye line — on hundreds of buildings.

They were put there by engineers to classify the buildings at greatest risk in the event of seismic activity.

In the Romanian capital alone, 349 structures were deemed at the highest risk and likely to collapse in a major earthquake. Many of them are apartment complexes. Hundreds of other buildings are expected to suffer major structural damage.

And those are just the ones that have been inspected.

“We only speak of about 300 buildings in danger of collapsing in Bucharest,’’ said Matei Sumbasacu, the founder of Re:Rise, Romania’s first nongovernmental organization focused on reducing seismic risk. “We know about another 1,600 buildings, and we don’t know how many others there are. But we are pretending that we need to resurvey them because, who knows, maybe they got stronger in the past 25 years.”