Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Pyu in Burma

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Pyu in Burma on Friday. Unique identifier: us2000ciql. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ciql. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/01/18 / 2018-01-12 04:16:07 / January 12, 2018 @ 4:16 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:46:07 / 10:46 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.1 km (18 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 96.126° East, 18.4907° North, depth 29.1 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Myanaung, Letpandan, Nyaunglebin (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Nyaunglebin (c. 89 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Myanaung (c. 42 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Pyu (c. 40 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Letpandan (c. 38 900 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Paungde (c. 37 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 32 km W of Pyu, Burma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	96.126° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.4907° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km 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	2018-01-12 04:16:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-12 04:55:41	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	298	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	2.673	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	158	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	us2000ciql	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ciql	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ciql,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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