Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Pyapon in Burma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Pyapon in Burma. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/04/18 / 2018-04-15 14:27:50 / April 15, 2018 @ 2:27 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000e0p0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000e0p0. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 95.7135° East, 16.1711° North. The temblor was reported at 20:57:50 / 8:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). The epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) from Bogale (c. 68 900 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Pyapon (c. 65 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Kanbe (c. 58 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Kyaiklat (c. 52 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Maubin (c. 51 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wakema, Kanbe, Twante.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km SSE of Pyapon, Burma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	95.7135° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.1711° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km SSE 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	2018-04-15 14:27:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-15 21:21:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	390	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.5	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	179	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	3.732	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	225	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	us2000e0p0	Id of event.
Event Code	2000e0p0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000e0p0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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