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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Mawlaik in Burma (Myanmar)

Posted by admin on July 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.4489S, 94.4782WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Mawlaik in Burma (Myanmar). The temblor was detected at 07:54:20 / 7:54 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 92.984 km (58 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/25 / 2025-07-17 07:54:20 / July 17, 2025 @ 7:54 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.4782 East, latitude 23.4489 North, depth = 92.984 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qd63. Unique identifier: us7000qd63.

Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mawlaik (min 5000 pop). Close 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. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 22 km SSE of Mawlaik, Burma (Myanmar).

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.4782° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.4489° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92.984 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km SSE of Mawlaik, 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 2025-07-17 07:54:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-17 08:18:36 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 340 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.269 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us7000qd63 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qd63 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qd63, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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