Earthquake breaking news, Moderate World Earthquakes Magnitude 5–5.9

Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Prome in Burma

Posted by admin on October 10, 2018 0 Comments

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Prome in Burma. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/10/18 / 2018-10-10 10:28:04 / October 10, 2018 @ 10:28 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 95.5838° East, latitude 19.0119° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000h9ws. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h9ws. The temblor was reported at 16:58:04 / 4:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Nay Pyi Taw (c. 925 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Pyay (c. 135 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Thayetmyo (c. 98 200 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Pyinmana (c. 97 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Myaydo (c. 57 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Myanaung (c. 42 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pyinmana, Nay Pyi Taw, Taungoo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

Did you feel anything?

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: 44 km ENE of Prome, Burma.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	95.5838° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0119° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km ENE of Prome, Burma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-10 10:28:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-10 10:48:07	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	400	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	2.217	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	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	us1000h9ws	Id of event.
Event Code	1000h9ws	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000h9ws,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Prome in Burma

Did you feel anything?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information