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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Thongwa in Burma


Earthquake location 16.2174S, 96.5388WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Thongwa in Burma. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cfu3. Id of event: us1000cfu3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/02/18 / 2018-02-04 08:42:02 / February 4, 2018 @ 8:42 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.5388 East, latitude 16.2174 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 14:42:02 / 2:42 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Yangon (c. 4 477 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Syriam (c. 69 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kanbe (c. 58 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Thongwa (c. 52 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Kyaiklat (c. 52 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Twante (c. 46 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kyaiklat, Twante, Kanbe (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 60 km S of Thongwa, Burma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.5388° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.2174° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km S of Thongwa, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-04 08:42:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-04 23:09:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 3.199 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 279 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 us1000cfu3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000cfu3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cfu3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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