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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Pyapon in Burma

Posted by admin on August 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.9748S, 96.4342WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 165 km SSE of Pyapon, Burma (103 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/07/16 / 2016-07-24 23:09:49 / July 24, 2016 @ 11:09 pm. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:09:49 / 5:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.75 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.4342 East, latitude 14.9748 North, depth = 27.75 km. Event id: us1000680u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000680u.

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 occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 165 km SSE of Pyapon, Burma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.4342° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.9748° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 165km SSE of Pyapon, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-24 23:09:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-07 04:29:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 385 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 1.898 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us1000680u Id of event.
Event Code 1000680u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000680u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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