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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Mawlaik in Burma


Earthquake location 23.7353S, 94.5883WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Mawlaik in Burma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 93.23 km (58 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 94.5883 East, latitude 23.7353 North, depth = 93.23 km. The temblor was detected at 15:18:01 / 3:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000brrl. Unique identifier: us2000brrl. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 08:48:01 / November 20, 2017 @ 8:48 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mawlaik (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km ENE of Mawlaik, Burma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.5883° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7353° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km ENE 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 2017-11-20 08:48:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-20 09:03:22 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 369 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 0.558 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us2000brrl Id of event.
Event Code 2000brrl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000brrl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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