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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Myanmar

Posted by admin on August 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 21.809S, 99.8216WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, Myanmar kilometers (0 miles) from Myanmar. The temblor was picked up at 14:02:51 / 2:02 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/07/16 / 2016-07-29 14:02:51 / July 29, 2016 @ 2:02 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.46 km (9 miles). Event id: us100068dq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100068dq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 99.8216 East, latitude 21.809 North, depth = 14.46 km.

Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Jinghong (c. 62 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jinghong (min 5000 pop).

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 have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Myanmar.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 99.8216° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.809° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Myanmar Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-29 14:02:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-13 07:25:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.563 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us100068dq Id of event.
Event Code 100068dq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100068dq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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