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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Myanmar


Earthquake location 20.9734S, 97.8144WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, Myanmar kilometers (0 miles) from Myanmar. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:47:47 / 11:47 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/21 / 2021-02-05 11:47:47 / February 5, 2021 @ 11:47 am. Id of earthquake: us6000depg. Event ids that are associated: us6000depg. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.1 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 97.8144 East, latitude 20.9734 North, depth = 10.1 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Taunggyi (c. 160 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taunggyi. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Myanmar. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 97.8144° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.9734° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Myanmar Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-05 11:47:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-05 12:29:03 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 298 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 0.757 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000depg Id of event.
Event Code 6000depg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000depg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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