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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Shwebo in Burma (Myanmar)


Earthquake location 22.8285S, 95.53WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Shwebo in Burma (Myanmar) on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/05/25 / 2025-05-04 23:33:17 / May 4, 2025 @ 11:33 pm UTC/GMT. 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 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000px5u. Unique identifier: us7000px5u. Exact location, longitude 95.53° East, latitude 22.8285° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:33:17 / 11:33 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Monywa (c. 182 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Shwebo (c. 88 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monywa, Shwebo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 33 km NNW of Shwebo, Burma (Myanmar).

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.53° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.8285° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km NNW of Shwebo, Burma (Myanmar) Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-04 23:33:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-05 01:10:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 298 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.067 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us7000px5u Id of event.
Event Code 7000px5u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000px5u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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