Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Monywa in Burma (Myanmar)

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Monywa in Burma (Myanmar) on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:13:16 / 11:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 95.5267° East, latitude 21.9821° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us6000q3nd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000q3nd. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/04/25 / 2025-04-02 23:13:16 / April 2, 2025 @ 11:13 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pakokku, Kyaukse, Shwebo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Mandalay (c. 1 208 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Monywa (c. 182 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Myingyan (c. 141 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Pakokku (c. 126 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Shwebo (c. 88 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Sagaing (c. 78 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 42 km ESE of Monywa, Burma (Myanmar).

Burma (Myanmar)Kyaukse Mandalay Monywa Myanmar Myingyan Pakokku Sagaing Shwebo

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	95.5267° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	21.9821° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42 km ESE of Monywa, Burma (Myanmar)	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-02 23:13:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-03 13:23:04	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	222	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.843	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	184	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000q3nd	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q3nd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q3nd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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