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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Akyab in Burma


Earthquake location 20.4368S, 93.378WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Akyab in Burma. The epicenter was at a depth of 31.81 km (20 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007dqr. Id of event: us60007dqr. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 09:48:05 / January 23, 2020 @ 9:48 am. The temblor was picked up at 16:18:05 / 4:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 93.378° East, 20.4368° North, depth 31.81 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Sittwe (c. 177 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sittwe (min 5000 pop).

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 have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 59 km ENE of Akyab, Burma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.378° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.4368° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km ENE 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 2020-01-23 09:48:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-23 10:04:52 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 369 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 2.204 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007dqr Id of event.
Event Code 60007dqr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007dqr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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