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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Myanaung in Burma (Myanmar)


Earthquake location 18.4005S, 94.6015WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Myanaung in Burma (Myanmar). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 09/06/25 / 2025-06-09 03:14:44 / June 9, 2025 @ 3:14 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qj3e. Unique identifier: us6000qj3e. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 49.581 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 94.6015 East, latitude 18.4005 North, depth = 49.581 km. The temblor was detected at 03:14:44 / 3:14 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paungde, Pyay, Myanaung. Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Pyay (c. 135 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Myanaung (c. 42 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Paungde (c. 37 000 pop). 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. 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 has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 76 km W of Myanaung, Burma (Myanmar).

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.6015° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4005° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.581 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76 km W of Myanaung, 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 2025-06-09 03:14:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-09 03:32:11 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 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.127 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us6000qj3e Id of event.
Event Code 6000qj3e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qj3e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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