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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Monywa in Burma


Earthquake location 21.8382S, 94.8345WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Monywa in Burma. Id of earthquake: us1000dx90. Event ids that are associated: us1000dx90. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 94.8345 East, latitude 21.8382 North, depth = 124.83 km. The temblor was reported at 09:48:43 / 9:48 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/04/18 / 2018-04-27 03:18:43 / April 27, 2018 @ 3:18 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 124.83 km (78 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Myingyan, Pakokku, Monywa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Monywa (c. 182 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Myingyan (c. 141 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Pakokku (c. 126 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 43 km SW of Monywa, Burma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.8345° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.8382° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 124.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SW of Monywa, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-27 03:18:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-22 03:12:17 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 284 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 1.396 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us1000dx90 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dx90 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dx90, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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