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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 10 km NW of Taungoo, Burma (Myanmar)

Posted by admin on September 7, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0025S, 96.3558WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Taungoo in Burma (Myanmar). The temblor was reported at 03:17:05 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000qui1. Event ids that are associated: us7000qui1. Global time and date of event 07/09/25 / 2025-09-07 03:17:05 / September 7, 2025 @ 3:17 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 96.3558° East, 19.0025° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Nay Pyi Taw (c. 925 000 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Pyinmana (c. 97 400 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Pyu (c. 40 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nay Pyi Taw, Pyinmana, Pyu (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NW of Taungoo, Burma (Myanmar). This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.3558° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0025° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km NW of Taungoo, 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 2025-09-07 03:17:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-07 03:38:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 370 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.551 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 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 us7000qui1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qui1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qui1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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