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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 30 km ENE of Nyaungdon, Burma

Posted by admin on March 30, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.1534S, 95.9052WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Nyaungdon in Burma. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/03/17 / 2017-03-30 10:34:53 / March 30, 2017 @ 10:34 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 17:04:53 / 5:04 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 95.9052 East, latitude 17.1534 North, depth = 17.73 km. Id of earthquake: us10008ddy. Event ids that are associated: us10008ddy. The epicenter was at a depth of 17.73 km (11 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kyaiklat, Thongwa, Kayan (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Yangon (c. 4 477 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Bago (c. 244 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hinthada (c. 134 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Syriam (c. 69 400 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Kanbe (c. 58 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Tharyarwady (c. 54 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km ENE of Nyaungdon, Burma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.9052° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.1534° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km ENE of Nyaungdon, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-30 10:34:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-30 22:57:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 273 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 0.372 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us10008ddy Id of event.
Event Code 10008ddy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008ddy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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