A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Pyu in Burma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/04/18 / 2018-04-21 22:41:10 / April 21, 2018 @ 10:41 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000dq2n. Event ids that are associated: us1000dq2n. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 96.0978° East, 18.2895° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:11:10 / 5:11 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hinthada, Myanaung, Taungoo. Earthquake epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Hinthada (c. 134 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Taungoo (c. 106 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Nyaunglebin (c. 89 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Tharyarwady (c. 54 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Myanaung (c. 42 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Pyu (c. 40 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Letpandan (c. 38 900 pop). Close country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 41 km WSW of Pyu, Burma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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