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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Pyu in Burma


Earthquake location 18.2886S, 96.0648WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Pyu in Burma. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dqcv. Unique identifier: us1000dqcv. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/04/18 / 2018-04-22 18:31:43 / April 22, 2018 @ 6:31 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 01:01:43 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 96.0648° East, latitude 18.2886° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hinthada, Taungoo, Nyaunglebin (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Hinthada (c. 134 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Nyaunglebin (c. 89 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tharyarwady (c. 54 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Myanaung (c. 42 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Pyu (c. 40 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Letpandan (c. 38 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).

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 four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 44 km WSW of Pyu, Burma. This data 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 96.0648° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2886° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km WSW 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 2018-04-22 18:31:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-22 19:20:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 370 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 2.067 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us1000dqcv Id of event.
Event Code 1000dqcv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dqcv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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