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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Mawlaik in Burma


Earthquake location 22.8923S, 94.5887WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Mawlaik in Burma on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/10/16 / 2016-10-26 02:21:59 / October 26, 2016 @ 2:21 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007grv. Unique identifier: us20007grv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.5887 East, latitude 22.8923 North, depth = 110.08 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:51:59 / 8:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 110.08 km (68 miles).

The epicenter was 104 km (64 miles) from Monywa (c. 182 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Hakha (c. 20 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Falam (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monywa, Hakha, Falam (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 83 km SSE of Mawlaik, Burma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.5887° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.8923° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km SSE 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 2016-10-26 02:21:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-26 02:41:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 385 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 0.946 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 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 us20007grv Id of event.
Event Code 20007grv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007grv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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