Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Hakha in Burma

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Hakha in Burma. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/10/19 / 2019-10-19 13:35:36 / October 19, 2019 @ 1:35 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us600062aj. Event ids that are associated: us600062aj. The temblor was detected at 20:05:36 / 8:05 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45.24 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 93.3104° East, latitude 22.5731° North, depth = 45.24 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Lunglei (c. 52 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Saiha (c. 22 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Serchhīp (c. 20 200 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hakha (c. 20 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Falam (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Serchhīp, Lunglei, Falam (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 32 km WSW of Hakha, Burma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	93.3104° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	22.5731° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km WSW of Hakha, Burma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-10-19 13:35:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-02 20:28:51	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	0.275	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	137	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	us600062aj	Id of event.
Event Code	600062aj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600062aj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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