Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Tharyarwady in Burma

Posted by admin on October 2, 2017 0 Comments

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Tharyarwady in Burma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/09/17 / 2017-09-11 13:56:11 / September 11, 2017 @ 1:56 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ar0y. Unique identifier: us2000ar0y. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 20:26:11 / 8:26 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 95.9326 East, latitude 17.4028 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Thongwa, Kayan, Maubin (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Yangon (c. 4 477 600 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Bago (c. 244 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Hinthada (c. 134 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Syriam (c. 69 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Kanbe (c. 58 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Tharyarwady (c. 54 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Thongwa (c. 52 500 pop).

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

Did you feel it?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 30 km SSE of Tharyarwady, Burma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	95.9326° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.4028° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km SSE of Tharyarwady, Burma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-11 13:56:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-01 18:11:58	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	326	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	0.575	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	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	us2000ar0y	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ar0y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ar0y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Tharyarwady in Burma

Did you feel it?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information