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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 76 km S of Mawlaik, Burma


Earthquake location 22.9437S, 94.4272WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Mawlaik in Burma. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:49:21 / 7:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 94.4272° East, 22.9437° North, depth 88.64 km. Global time and date of event 22/09/15 / 2015-09-22 13:19:21 / September 22, 2015 @ 1:19 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 88.64 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003mvp. Unique identifier: us20003mvp.

Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Hakha (c. 20 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Falam (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hakha, Mawlaik, Falam (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 76 km S of Mawlaik, Burma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.4272° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.9437° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km S of Mawlaik, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-22 13:19:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-22 15:55:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.51 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003mvp Id of event.
Event Code 20003mvp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003mvp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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