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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Myingyan in Burma (Myanmar)


Earthquake location 21.5656S, 95.5427WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Myingyan in Burma (Myanmar) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17.157 km (11 miles). Event id: us7000qac1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qac1. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/07/25 / 2025-07-03 00:40:40 / July 3, 2025 @ 12:40 am UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:40:40 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 95.5427 East, latitude 21.5656 North, depth = 17.157 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Meiktila, Monywa, Mandalay. The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Mandalay (c. 1 208 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Monywa (c. 182 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Meiktila (c. 177 400 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Myingyan (c. 141 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Pakokku (c. 126 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Sagaing (c. 78 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km NE of Myingyan, Burma (Myanmar). This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.5427° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.5656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.157 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km NE of Myingyan, 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 2025-07-03 00:40:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-03 00:58:00 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.781 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us7000qac1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qac1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qac1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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