Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Myanaung in Myanmar

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Myanaung in Myanmar. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.21 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000bggc. Event ids that are associated: us7000bggc. The temblor was reported at 15:50:10 / 3:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 95.1077 East, latitude 18.2351 North, depth = 33.21 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/08/20 / 2020-08-27 15:50:10 / August 27, 2020 @ 3:50 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Pyay (c. 135 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hinthada (c. 134 900 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Myanaung (c. 42 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Letpandan (c. 38 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Paungde (c. 37 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Letpandan, Hinthada, Pyay (min 5000 pop).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 23 km WSW of Myanaung, Myanmar.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	95.1077° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2351° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 km WSW of Myanaung, Myanmar	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-27 15:50:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-22 19:54:07	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	284	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	3.106	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	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	us7000bggc	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bggc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bggc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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