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Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near Shwebo in Burma (Myanmar)

Posted by admin on July 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 22.6861S, 96.0157WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Shwebo in Burma (Myanmar). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/07/25 / 2025-07-18 09:30:03 / July 18, 2025 @ 9:30 am. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:30:03 / 9:30 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000qddu. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qddu. Exact location of earthquake, 96.0157° East, 22.6861° North, depth 10 km. 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 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Mandalay (c. 1 208 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Pyin Oo Lwin (c. 117 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mogok (c. 90 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Shwebo (c. 88 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Sagaing (c. 78 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sagaing, Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 35 km ENE of Shwebo, Burma (Myanmar). This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.0157° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.6861° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 km ENE 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 2025-07-18 09:30:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-18 09:45:40 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 449 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 78 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.792 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 59 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 us7000qddu Id of event.
Event Code 7000qddu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qddu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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