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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 81 km SSE of Mawlaik, Burma

Posted by admin on April 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 22.9227S, 94.6044WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Mawlaik in Burma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/04/18 / 2018-04-24 04:08:35 / April 24, 2018 @ 4:08 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dr4k. Id of event: us1000dr4k. Exact location of earthquake, 94.6044° East, 22.9227° North, depth 105.85 km. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:38:35 / 10:38 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 105.85 km (66 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hakha, Monywa, Falam. Event epicenter was 106 km (66 miles) from Monywa (c. 182 000 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Hakha (c. 20 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Falam (c. 5 400 pop). Close country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 81 km SSE of Mawlaik, Burma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.6044° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.9227° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 105.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km SSE of Mawlaik, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-24 04:08:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-24 04:19:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 417 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 0.968 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us1000dr4k Id of event.
Event Code 1000dr4k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dr4k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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