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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Pyinmana in Burma


Earthquake location 19.4562S, 96.4059WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Pyinmana in Burma on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 50.52 km (31 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:59:18 / 7:59 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000h6xu. Event ids that are associated: us1000h6xu. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/10/18 / 2018-10-04 13:29:18 / October 4, 2018 @ 1:29 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 96.4059° East, 19.4562° North, depth 50.52 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loikaw, Taungoo, Nay Pyi Taw (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Nay Pyi Taw (c. 925 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Pyinmana (c. 97 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Loikaw (c. 17 300 pop). Nearby 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. 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 36 km SSE of Pyinmana, Burma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.4059° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4562° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km SSE of Pyinmana, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-04 13:29:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-04 13:52:47 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 312 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 1.432 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us1000h6xu Id of event.
Event Code 1000h6xu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h6xu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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