Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Pyapon in Burma

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Pyapon in Burma on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:57:32 / 4:57 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000e0fp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000e0fp. Exact location of earthquake, 95.7461° East, 16.2053° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/04/18 / 2018-04-14 22:27:32 / April 14, 2018 @ 10:27 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Yangon (c. 4 477 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Syriam (c. 69 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Bogale (c. 68 900 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Pyapon (c. 65 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Kanbe (c. 58 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Kyaiklat (c. 52 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Syriam, Yangon, Wakema.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km SE of Pyapon, Burma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	95.7461° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.2053° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km SE of Pyapon, Burma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-14 22:27:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-15 05:04:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	390	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	15	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.2	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	265	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	3.786	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	142	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	us2000e0fp	Id of event.
Event Code	2000e0fp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000e0fp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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