Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Maubin in Myanmar

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Maubin in Myanmar on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:05:39 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/03/25 / 2025-03-04 22:05:39 / March 4, 2025 @ 10:05 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000pylr. Event ids that are associated: us6000pylr. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 95.5674° East, 16.7002° North, depth 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Yangon (c. 4 477 600 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Pathein (c. 237 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Syriam (c. 69 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Bogale (c. 68 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Pyapon (c. 65 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Kanbe (c. 58 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pathein, Syriam, Yangon.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days six 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 9 km WSW of Maubin, Myanmar. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	95.5674° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.7002° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km WSW 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 22:05:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-14 03:03:07	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	259	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.663	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	176	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	us6000pylr	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pylr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pylr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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