Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Kyaukse in Burma (Myanmar)

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Kyaukse in Burma (Myanmar). Exact location, longitude 96.0788° East, latitude 21.7055° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000q575. Unique identifier: us6000q575. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/04/25 / 2025-04-10 16:17:59 / April 10, 2025 @ 4:17 pm. The temblor was picked up at 16:17:59 / 4:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Myingyan, Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop). The epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Mandalay (c. 1 208 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Myingyan (c. 141 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Pyin Oo Lwin (c. 117 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Sagaing (c. 78 700 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Kyaukse (c. 50 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 12 km NNW of Kyaukse, Burma (Myanmar).

Burma (Myanmar)Kyaukse Mandalay Myanmar Myingyan Pyin Oo Lwin Sagaing

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	96.0788° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	21.7055° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km NNW of Kyaukse, 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	2025-04-10 16:17:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-10 17:59:24	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	4.3	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	234	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.191	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	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	us6000q575	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q575	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q575,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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