Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Pyu in Burma

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Pyu in Burma on Friday. The temblor was detected at 01:25:04 / 1:25 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000cpaz. Event ids that are associated: us2000cpaz. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 18:55:04 / January 11, 2018 @ 6:55 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 96.0167° East, 18.3474° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Event epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Pyay (c. 135 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Hinthada (c. 134 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Nyaunglebin (c. 89 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Tharyarwady (c. 54 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Myanaung (c. 42 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Pyu (c. 40 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pyay, Hinthada, Nyaunglebin.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km WSW of Pyu, Burma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	96.0167° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.3474° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km 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	2018-01-11 18:55:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-30 21:54:33	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	2.78	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	us2000cpaz	Id of event.
Event Code	2000cpaz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000cpaz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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