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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Pyu in Burma

Posted by admin on January 14, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2911S, 96.0844WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Pyu in Burma on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cjiy. Id of event: us2000cjiy. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.0844 East, latitude 18.2911 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/01/18 / 2018-01-14 17:49:54 / January 14, 2018 @ 5:49 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 00:19:54 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 97 km (61 miles) from Hinthada (c. 134 900 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Nyaunglebin (c. 89 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Tharyarwady (c. 54 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Myanaung (c. 42 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Pyu (c. 40 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Letpandan (c. 38 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hinthada, Taungoo, Myanaung (min 5000 pop).

Every 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 two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km WSW of Pyu, Burma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.0844° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2911° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km WSW of Pyu, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-14 17:49:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-14 18:12:20 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 340 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 2.622 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us2000cjiy Id of event.
Event Code 2000cjiy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cjiy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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