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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Mawlaik in Burma


Earthquake location 23.7162S, 94.856WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Mawlaik in Burma. The temblor was picked up at 17:37:47 / 5:37 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000f08c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000f08c. Global time and date of event 24/06/18 / 2018-06-24 11:07:47 / June 24, 2018 @ 11:07 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 121.13 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.856 East, latitude 23.7162 North, depth = 121.13 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mawlaik (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km ENE of Mawlaik, Burma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.856° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7162° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 121.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km ENE 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 2018-06-24 11:07:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-13 06:09:01 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 284 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 0.72 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us1000f08c Id of event.
Event Code 1000f08c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000f08c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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