A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Pyu in Burma. Exact location, longitude 96.1045° East, latitude 18.3304° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 18:38:11 / January 11, 2018 @ 6:38 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000cifm. Unique identifier: us2000cifm. The temblor was reported at 01:08:11 / 1:08 am (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pyay, Hinthada, Myanaung. Epicenter of the earthquake was 108 km (67 miles) from Pyay (c. 135 300 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Hinthada (c. 134 900 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Nyaunglebin (c. 89 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Tharyarwady (c. 54 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Myanaung (c. 42 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Pyu (c. 40 400 pop).
There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 38 km WSW of Pyu, Burma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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