A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Akyab in Burma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/03/19 / 2019-03-26 13:52:12 / March 26, 2019 @ 1:52 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000k9nt. Unique identifier: us2000k9nt. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 93.4157° East, 20.6982° North. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:22:12 / 8:22 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sittwe. The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Sittwe (c. 177 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 two 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. 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: 81 km NE of Akyab, Burma.
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