Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Myanaung in Myanmar

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Myanaung in Myanmar. The temblor was picked up at 07:57:45 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 95.2239° East, latitude 18.4653° North, depth = 84.854 km. Id of earthquake: us7000nv8y. Event ids that are associated: us7000nv8y. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 84.854 km (53 miles). Global time and date of event 01/12/24 / 2024-12-01 07:57:45 / December 1, 2024 @ 7:57 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Thayetmyo, Hinthada, Letpandan (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Pyay (c. 135 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Hinthada (c. 134 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Thayetmyo (c. 98 200 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Myanaung (c. 42 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Letpandan (c. 38 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Paungde (c. 37 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 22 km NNW of Myanaung, Myanmar.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	95.2239° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.4653° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	84.854 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22 km NNW 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	2024-12-01 07:57:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-01 08:17:53	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	326	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.741	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	166	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	us7000nv8y	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nv8y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nv8y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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