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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Akyab in Burma


Earthquake location 20.6982S, 93.4157WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Akyab in Burma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/03/19 / 2019-03-26 13:52:12 / March 26, 2019 @ 1:52 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000k9nt. Unique identifier: us2000k9nt. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 93.4157° East, 20.6982° North. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:22:12 / 8:22 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sittwe. The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Sittwe (c. 177 700 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 was reported nearby.

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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: 81 km NE of Akyab, Burma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.4157° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.6982° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km NE of Akyab, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-26 13:52:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-03 18:16:27 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 340 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 1.941 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223 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 us2000k9nt Id of event.
Event Code 2000k9nt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k9nt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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