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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Chauk in Burma


Earthquake location 20.8076S, 94.2046WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Chauk in Burma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 78.31 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us100061vj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100061vj. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.2046 East, latitude 20.8076 North, depth = 78.31 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/07/16 / 2016-07-02 05:04:15 / July 2, 2016 @ 5:04 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:34:15 / 11:34 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Yenangyaung (c. 110 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Chauk (c. 90 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yenangyaung, Chauk (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km W of Chauk, Burma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.2046° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.8076° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km W of Chauk, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-02 05:04:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-27 07:09:46 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 284 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 1.91 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us100061vj Id of event.
Event Code 100061vj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100061vj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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