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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Pyay in Myanmar

Posted by admin on June 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9498S, 94.2985WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 98 kilometers (61 miles) from Pyay in Myanmar. The temblor was picked up at 11:15:51 / 11:15 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/06/20 / 2020-06-16 11:15:51 / June 16, 2020 @ 11:15 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 94.2985° East, latitude 18.9498° North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000acrw. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000acrw.

Epicenter of the event was 98 km (61 miles) from Pyay (c. 135 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pyay (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 98 km W of Pyay, Myanmar.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.2985° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9498° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98 km W of Pyay, Myanmar Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-16 11:15:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-16 11:47:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 354 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 3.146 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us6000acrw Id of event.
Event Code 6000acrw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000acrw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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