A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Mawlaik in Burma. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:28:32 / 5:28 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005gfd. Unique identifier: us20005gfd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62.6 km (39 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 94.3079 East, latitude 23.7551 North, depth = 62.6 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/04/16 / 2016-04-03 10:58:32 / April 3, 2016 @ 10:58 am.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Churāchāndpur (c. 47 800 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kakching (c. 30 400 pop). Close country/countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Churāchāndpur, Kakching, Mawlaik (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km NW of Mawlaik, Burma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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