Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Falam in Burma

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Falam in Burma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/03/19 / 2019-03-20 23:37:41 / March 20, 2019 @ 11:37 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 93.9542 East, latitude 22.8802 North, depth = 30.44 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:07:41 / 6:07 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30.44 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000jjk8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jjk8.

Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Hakha (c. 20 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Falam (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hakha, Falam (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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 28 km E of Falam, Burma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	93.9542° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	22.8802° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30.44 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km E of Falam, Burma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-03-20 23:37:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-20 23:59:15	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	0.404	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	100	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	us1000jjk8	Id of event.
Event Code	1000jjk8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000jjk8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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