Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Taungoo in Burma

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Taungoo in Burma. Exact location of event, longitude 96.2692 East, latitude 19.1245 North, depth = 26.21 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.21 km (16 miles). Event id: us20002ysq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002ysq. The temblor was reported at 07:57:10 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/07/15 / 2015-07-21 01:27:10 / July 21, 2015 @ 1:27 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pyu, Nay Pyi Taw, Pyinmana. Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Nay Pyi Taw (c. 925 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Pyinmana (c. 97 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Pyu (c. 40 400 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km NW of Taungoo, Burma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	96.2692° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1245° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km NW of Taungoo, Burma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-21 01:27:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-21 01:37:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	390	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.611	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	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	us20002ysq	Id of event.
Event Code	20002ysq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20002ysq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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