Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Falam in Burma

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Falam in Burma. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:53:01 / 6:53 pm (local time epicenter). 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 48.79 km (30 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/03/16 / 2016-03-07 12:23:01 / March 7, 2016 @ 12:23 pm. Id of earthquake: us10004vu1. Event ids that are associated: us10004vu1. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 93.968 East, latitude 22.7785 North, depth = 48.79 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Hakha (c. 20 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Falam (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hakha, Falam (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 32 km ESE of Falam, Burma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	93.968° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	22.7785° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	48.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km ESE of Falam, Burma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-07 12:23:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-07 13:10:53	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	312	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	3.38	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	167	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	us10004vu1	Id of event.
Event Code	10004vu1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004vu1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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