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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Pyu in Burma


Earthquake location 18.4992S, 96.215WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Pyu in Burma. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/01/18 / 2018-01-13 13:51:14 / January 13, 2018 @ 1:51 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 96.215 East, latitude 18.4992 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:21:14 / 8:21 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000cpva. Unique identifier: us2000cpva.

Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Nyaunglebin (c. 89 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Pyu (c. 40 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Letpandan (c. 38 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Paungde (c. 37 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Letpandan, Nyaunglebin, Paungde (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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: 23 km W of Pyu, Burma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.215° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km 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 2018-01-13 13:51:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-11 18:58:48 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 2.385 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us2000cpva Id of event.
Event Code 2000cpva An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cpva, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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