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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Hakha in Burma


Earthquake location 22.7392S, 93.3935WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Hakha in Burma. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/04/19 / 2019-04-15 01:39:45 / April 15, 2019 @ 1:39 am. Id of earthquake: us7000364c. Event ids that are associated: us7000364c. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:09:45 / 8:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 93.3935 East, latitude 22.7392 North, depth = 52.69 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.69 km (33 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Thenzawl, Serchhīp, Lunglei (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Lunglei (c. 52 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Saiha (c. 22 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Serchhīp (c. 20 200 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Hakha (c. 20 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Thenzawl (c. 6 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Falam (c. 5 400 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 24 km WNW of Hakha, Burma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.3935° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.7392° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km WNW of Hakha, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-15 01:39:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-15 02:00:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 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 340 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 0.213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us7000364c Id of event.
Event Code 7000364c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000364c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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