A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, Myanmar-India border region kilometers (0 miles) from Myanmar-India border region. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 18:34:16 / September 17, 2015 @ 6:34 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 78.23 km (49 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 94.6695 East, latitude 24.5661 North, depth = 78.23 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:34:16 / 6:34 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20003kra. Event ids that are associated: us20003kra.
Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Imphal (c. 223 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Thoubāl (c. 44 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Kakching (c. 30 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mayāng Imphāl (c. 22 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Moirāng (c. 17 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Yairipok (c. 8 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Wāngjing (c. 7 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moirāng, Mayāng Imphāl, Imphal (min 5000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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