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Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near Pyu in Burma

Posted by admin on January 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4294S, 96.0865WA earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Pyu in Burma. Unique identifier: us2000cifa. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cifa. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:56:24 / 12:56 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 18:26:24 / January 11, 2018 @ 6:26 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.0865 East, latitude 18.4294 North, depth = 10 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 101 km (63 miles) from Pyay (c. 135 300 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Hinthada (c. 134 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Nyaunglebin (c. 89 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Tharyarwady (c. 54 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Myanaung (c. 42 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Pyu (c. 40 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Letpandan (c. 38 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hinthada, Pyay, Tharyarwady.

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km W of Pyu, Burma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.0865° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4294° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km W of Pyu, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-11 18:26:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-11 18:44:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.89 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 556 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 2.736 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000cifa Id of event.
Event Code 2000cifa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cifa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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