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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Twante in Burma


Earthquake location 16.603S, 95.866WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Twante in Burma. Exact location of event, longitude 95.866 East, latitude 16.603 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 13/01/18 / 2018-01-13 08:19:46 / January 13, 2018 @ 8:19 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 14:49:46 / 2:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000cjl0. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cjl0.

Close country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Thanatpin, Kayan, Wakema (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 38 km (24 miles) from Yangon (c. 4 477 600 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Syriam (c. 69 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Bogale (c. 68 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Pyapon (c. 65 600 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Kanbe (c. 58 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Thongwa (c. 52 500 pop).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 14 km SSW of Twante, Burma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.866° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.603° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SSW of Twante, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-13 08:19:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-14 23:18:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 26 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.7 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 198 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 3.466 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000cjl0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000cjl0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cjl0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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