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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 79 km SSE of Mawlaik, Burma


Earthquake location 22.9502S, 94.6704WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Mawlaik in Burma. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:58:07 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/01/17 / 2017-01-04 14:28:07 / January 4, 2017 @ 2:28 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 94.6704° East, latitude 22.9502° North, depth = 121.9 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 121.9 km (76 miles). Event id: us10007pp8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007pp8.

Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mawlaik (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 79 km SSE of Mawlaik, Burma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.6704° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.9502° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 121.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km 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 2017-01-04 14:28:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-04 14:44:43 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 326 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 1.318 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us10007pp8 Id of event.
Event Code 10007pp8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007pp8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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