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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 40 km SSW of Magway, Burma

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Earthquake location 19.8203S, 94.7544WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Magway in Burma on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/01/17 / 2017-01-21 21:49:18 / January 21, 2017 @ 9:49 pm. Unique identifier: us10007unu. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007unu. The epicenter was at a depth of 70.14 km (44 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 94.7544° East, 19.8203° North, depth 70.14 km. The temblor was detected at 04:19:18 / 4:19 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Yenangyaung (c. 110 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Thayetmyo (c. 98 200 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Magway (c. 97 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Taungdwingyi (c. 70 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Myaydo (c. 57 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Minbu (c. 57 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taungdwingyi, Yenangyaung, Thayetmyo (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 was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.7544° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.8203° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SSW of Magway, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-21 21:49:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-21 22:30:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 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 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 3.007 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us10007unu Id of event.
Event Code 10007unu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007unu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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