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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Pyu in Burma


Earthquake location 18.2895S, 96.0978WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Pyu in Burma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/04/18 / 2018-04-21 22:41:10 / April 21, 2018 @ 10:41 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000dq2n. Event ids that are associated: us1000dq2n. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 96.0978° East, 18.2895° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:11:10 / 5:11 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hinthada, Myanaung, Taungoo. Earthquake epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Hinthada (c. 134 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Nyaunglebin (c. 89 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Tharyarwady (c. 54 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Myanaung (c. 42 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Pyu (c. 40 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Letpandan (c. 38 900 pop). Close country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light 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: 41 km WSW of Pyu, Burma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.0978° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2895° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km 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 2018-04-21 22:41:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-21 22:57:08 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 2.04 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us1000dq2n Id of event.
Event Code 1000dq2n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dq2n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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