Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 92 km SSE of Mawlaik, Myanmar

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Mawlaik in Myanmar. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 107.164 km (67 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.5818 East, latitude 22.826 North, depth = 107.164 km. Global time and date of event 02/06/24 / 2024-06-02 08:44:59 / June 2, 2024 @ 8:44 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000mplk. Event ids that are associated: us7000mplk. The temblor was picked up at 08:44:59 / 8:44 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Monywa (c. 182 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Hakha (c. 20 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Falam (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hakha, Monywa, Falam (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 92 km SSE of Mawlaik, Myanmar. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	94.5818° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	22.826° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	107.164 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	92 km SSE of Mawlaik, Myanmar	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-06-02 08:44:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-02 09:03:09	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	75	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.642	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	us7000mplk	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mplk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mplk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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