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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Maubin in Myanmar

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Maubin in Myanmar. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/03/25 / 2025-03-04 22:06:44 / March 4, 2025 @ 10:06 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 95.6159° East, 16.8634° North, depth 10 km. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:06:44 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pwx1. Unique identifier: us6000pwx1.

The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Yangon (c. 4 477 600 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Bago (c. 244 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Pathein (c. 237 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Hinthada (c. 134 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Syriam (c. 69 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Bogale (c. 68 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Pyapon (c. 65 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bago, Letpandan, Kayan (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 15 km NNW of Maubin, Myanmar.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	95.6159° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.8634° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km NNW of Maubin, Myanmar	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-04 22:06:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-04 22:49:11	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	4.1	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	401	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	74	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.546	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	63	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000pwx1	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pwx1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pwx1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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