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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Myanmar


Earthquake location 20.255S, 93.6468WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes Myanmar kilometers (0 miles) from Myanmar on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44.85 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us1000huhk. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000huhk. Exact location, longitude 93.6468° East, latitude 20.255° North, depth = 44.85 km. The temblor was detected at 17:49:20 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/11/18 / 2018-11-20 17:49:20 / November 20, 2018 @ 5:49 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Sittwe (c. 177 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sittwe. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: Myanmar. 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 93.6468° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.255° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Myanmar Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-20 17:49:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-20 18:47:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 2.375 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us1000huhk Id of event.
Event Code 1000huhk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000huhk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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