A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Mawlaik in Burma. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hxrv. Id of event: us1000hxrv. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:27:37 / 10:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.3616 East, latitude 23.5469 North, depth = 75.29 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/11/18 / 2018-11-29 03:57:37 / November 29, 2018 @ 3:57 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 75.29 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Close country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 12 km (7 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mawlaik (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 11 km SSW of Mawlaik, Burma.
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