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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 89 km W of Prome, Burma


Earthquake location 18.9383S, 94.3804WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Prome in Burma. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:09:21 / 11:09 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.79 km (33 miles). Event id: us1000jmhe. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jmhe. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/03/19 / 2019-03-27 16:39:21 / March 27, 2019 @ 4:39 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.3804 East, latitude 18.9383 North, depth = 52.79 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (56 miles) from Pyay (c. 135 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pyay.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 89 km W of Prome, Burma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.3804° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9383° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km W of Prome, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-27 16:39:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-27 21:23:42 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 3.09 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 us1000jmhe Id of event.
Event Code 1000jmhe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jmhe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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