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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 82 km WSW of Prome, Burma


Earthquake location 18.4865S, 94.5107WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Prome in Burma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.29 km (25 miles). Exact location, longitude 94.5107° East, latitude 18.4865° North, depth = 40.29 km. The temblor was reported at 09:54:23 / 9:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us600056k3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600056k3. Global time and date of event 18/08/19 / 2019-08-18 03:24:23 / August 18, 2019 @ 3:24 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Paungde, Myanaung, Pyay (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Pyay (c. 135 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Myanaung (c. 42 300 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Paungde (c. 37 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 82 km WSW of Prome, Burma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.5107° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4865° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km WSW 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 2019-08-18 03:24:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-18 03:44:18 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 432 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 3.287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us600056k3 Id of event.
Event Code 600056k3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600056k3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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