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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Monywa in Burma


Earthquake location 21.9365S, 94.469WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Monywa in Burma on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 100.46 km (62 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/03/19 / 2019-03-18 16:54:30 / March 18, 2019 @ 4:54 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 94.469° East, 21.9365° North, depth 100.46 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 23:24:30 / 11:24 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000ji13. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ji13.

The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Monywa (c. 182 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Pakokku (c. 126 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pakokku, Monywa. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 71 km WSW of Monywa, Burma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.469° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.9365° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km WSW of Monywa, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-18 16:54:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-18 18:12:16 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 326 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 1.068 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us1000ji13 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ji13 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ji13, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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