A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Pyu in Burma. 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 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/01/18 / 2018-01-13 13:51:14 / January 13, 2018 @ 1:51 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 96.215 East, latitude 18.4992 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:21:14 / 8:21 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000cpva. Unique identifier: us2000cpva.
Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Nyaunglebin (c. 89 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Pyu (c. 40 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Letpandan (c. 38 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Paungde (c. 37 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Letpandan, Nyaunglebin, Paungde (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days seventeen 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 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 23 km W of Pyu, Burma.
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