Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Mawlaik in Burma

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Mawlaik in Burma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 106.3 km (66 miles). Global time and date of event 23/08/16 / 2016-08-23 02:11:13 / August 23, 2016 @ 2:11 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 08:41:13 / 8:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 106.3 km, 94.6945° East, 23.8942° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006fx8. Id of event: us10006fx8.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yairipok, Thoubāl, Wāngjing (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Kakching (c. 30 400 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Yairipok (c. 8 800 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Wāngjing (c. 7 500 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	94.6945° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.8942° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	106.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km NE 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	2016-08-23 02:11:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-23 02:23:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	390	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	432	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	0.491	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us10006fx8	Id of event.
Event Code	10006fx8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006fx8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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