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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Pyapon in Myanmar

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Pyapon in Myanmar. Unique identifier: us6000pwjj. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pwjj. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 95.6218 East, latitude 16.322 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 03:33:02 / 3:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/03/25 / 2025-03-03 03:33:02 / March 3, 2025 @ 3:33 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Syriam, Nyaungdon, Yangon (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Yangon (c. 4 477 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Syriam (c. 69 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Bogale (c. 68 900 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Pyapon (c. 65 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Kanbe (c. 58 100 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Kyaiklat (c. 52 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Maubin (c. 51 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 7 km WNW of Pyapon, Myanmar.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	95.6218° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.322° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km WNW of Pyapon, Myanmar	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-03 03:33:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-03 03:51:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	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	312	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.816	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	154	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	us6000pwjj	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pwjj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pwjj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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