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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Taungdwingyi in Burma


Earthquake location 19.9181S, 95.4792WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Taungdwingyi in Burma. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 95.4792° East, 19.9181° North, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/11/18 / 2018-11-05 19:48:36 / November 5, 2018 @ 7:48 pm. The temblor was picked up at 02:18:36 / 2:18 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000i74f. Id of event: us2000i74f.

Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Nay Pyi Taw (c. 925 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Yenangyaung (c. 110 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Thayetmyo (c. 98 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Pyinmana (c. 97 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Magway (c. 97 000 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Taungdwingyi (c. 70 100 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Yamethin (c. 59 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamethin, Yenangyaung, Pyinmana. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km SW of Taungdwingyi, Burma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.4792° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.9181° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SW of Taungdwingyi, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-05 19:48:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-05 23:21:49 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 1.686 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us2000i74f Id of event.
Event Code 2000i74f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i74f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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