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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 8 km E of Shwebo, Burma (Myanmar)


Earthquake location 22.58S, 95.7825WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Shwebo in Burma (Myanmar). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000q8ml. Unique identifier: us7000q8ml. Exact location, longitude 95.7825° East, latitude 22.58° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:31:45 / 7:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/06/25 / 2025-06-25 07:31:45 / June 25, 2025 @ 7:31 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pyin Oo Lwin, Monywa, Mogok (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Mandalay (c. 1 208 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Monywa (c. 182 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Pyin Oo Lwin (c. 117 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Mogok (c. 90 800 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Shwebo (c. 88 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sagaing (c. 78 700 pop).

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

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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: 8 km E of Shwebo, Burma (Myanmar).

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.7825° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.58° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km E 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 2025-06-25 07:31:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-24 13:29:15 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 284 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 1.587 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us7000q8ml Id of event.
Event Code 7000q8ml An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000q8ml, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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