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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Mawlaik in Burma

Posted by admin on April 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.8202S, 94.1825WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Mawlaik in Burma. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 94.1825° East, 23.8202° North, depth 67.65 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/04/16 / 2016-04-14 05:41:53 / April 14, 2016 @ 5:41 am. The temblor was picked up at 12:11:53 / 12:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 67.65 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005hyf. Id of event: us20005hyf.

The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Churāchāndpur (c. 47 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kakching (c. 30 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Mayāng Imphāl (c. 22 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Moirāng (c. 17 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Yairipok (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yairipok, Thoubāl, Mayāng Imphāl (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km NW of Mawlaik, Burma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.1825° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.8202° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km NW of Mawlaik, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-14 05:41:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-14 06:24:22 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 326 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 2.738 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us20005hyf Id of event.
Event Code 20005hyf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005hyf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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