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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Taungoo in Burma (Myanmar)

Posted by admin on October 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1121S, 96.4997WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Taungoo in Burma (Myanmar). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:55:36 / 12:55 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 96.4997 East, latitude 19.1121 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/09/25 / 2025-09-28 00:55:36 / September 28, 2025 @ 12:55 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000riaf. Unique identifier: us6000riaf.

Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Nay Pyi Taw (c. 925 000 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Pyinmana (c. 97 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Pyu (c. 40 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nay Pyi Taw, Pyinmana, Pyu (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 19 km NNE of Taungoo, Burma (Myanmar).

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.4997° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1121° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km NNE 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 2025-09-28 00:55:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-23 03:07:22 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.398 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 113 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 us6000riaf Id of event.
Event Code 6000riaf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000riaf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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