Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 42 km SW of Hinthada, Burma

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Hinthada in Burma. Event id: us60009bkn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009bkn. Exact location, longitude 95.1694° East, latitude 17.3704° North, depth = 64.38 km. The temblor was reported at 11:49:15 / 11:49 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.38 km (40 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 20/04/20 / 2020-04-20 05:19:15 / April 20, 2020 @ 5:19 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Pathein (c. 237 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Hinthada (c. 134 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Tharyarwady (c. 54 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Maubin (c. 51 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Wakema (c. 42 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Nyaungdon (c. 40 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maubin, Wakema, Pathein.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	95.1694° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.3704° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	64.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42km SW of Hinthada, Burma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-20 05:19:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-16 08:00:31	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	271	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	3.751	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	106	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	us60009bkn	Id of event.
Event Code	60009bkn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60009bkn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 42 km SW of Hinthada, Burma

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