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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Mawlaik in Burma


Earthquake location 23.5958S, 95.1808WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Mawlaik in Burma. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003c8v. Id of event: us70003c8v. Exact location of event, depth 33.44 km, 95.1808° East, 23.5958° North. Global time and date of event 25/04/19 / 2019-04-25 23:37:58 / April 25, 2019 @ 11:37 pm UTC/GMT. 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 33.44 km (21 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:07:58 / 6:07 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mawlaik. Close 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 78 km E of Mawlaik, Burma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.1808° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.5958° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km E of Mawlaik, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-25 23:37:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-25 23:57:30 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 312 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 1.023 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 117 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 us70003c8v Id of event.
Event Code 70003c8v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003c8v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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