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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 81 km NW of Monywa, Burma


Earthquake location 22.6636S, 94.6071WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Monywa in Burma. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000aul4. Unique identifier: us1000aul4. Exact location of event, depth 117.22 km, 94.6071° East, 22.6636° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/10/17 / 2017-10-13 01:32:43 / October 13, 2017 @ 1:32 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 117.22 km (73 miles). The temblor was reported at 08:02:43 / 8:02 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Monywa (c. 182 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monywa. Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 81 km NW of Monywa, Burma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.6071° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.6636° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 117.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km NW of Monywa, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-13 01:32:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-01 23:30:28 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 259 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 0.931 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us1000aul4 Id of event.
Event Code 1000aul4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000aul4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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