Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Mawlaik in Burma

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Mawlaik in Burma. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/08/17 / 2017-08-21 00:45:19 / August 21, 2017 @ 12:45 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 89.38 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000abnb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000abnb. Exact location of event, depth 89.38 km, 94.4598° East, 23.4984° North. The temblor was picked up at 07:15:19 / 7:15 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mawlaik (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (11 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days fourteen 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.

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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. 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: 15 km SSE of Mawlaik, Burma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	94.4598° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.4984° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	89.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km SSE 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	2017-08-21 00:45:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-12 05:42:59	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	246	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	0.742	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	145	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	us2000abnb	Id of event.
Event Code	2000abnb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000abnb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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