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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Chauk in Burma


Earthquake location 20.9904S, 94.47WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Chauk in Burma. Exact location of event, longitude 94.47 East, latitude 20.9904 North, depth = 81.11 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:45:04 / 4:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 81.11 km (50 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70009aqe. Event ids that are associated: us70009aqe. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/05/20 / 2020-05-05 22:15:04 / May 5, 2020 @ 10:15 pm.

Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Pakokku (c. 126 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Yenangyaung (c. 110 600 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Chauk (c. 90 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pakokku, Yenangyaung, Chauk (min 5000 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 two 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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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km WNW of Chauk, Burma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.47° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.9904° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km WNW of Chauk, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-05 22:15:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-05 22:50:28 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 259 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 1.831 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us70009aqe Id of event.
Event Code 70009aqe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009aqe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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