A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Myitkyina in Burma. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:19:37 / 3:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 96.8302 East, latitude 26.0079 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us2000jenq. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jenq. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/02/19 / 2019-02-07 08:49:37 / February 7, 2019 @ 8:49 am UTC/GMT.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Myitkyina (c. 90 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Myitkyina (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 89 km NW of Myitkyina, Burma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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