A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Mawlaik in Burma. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 133.05 km (83 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/04/19 / 2019-04-29 17:39:44 / April 29, 2019 @ 5:39 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 00:09:44 / 12:09 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70003e51. Unique identifier: us70003e51. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.8184 East, latitude 23.0333 North, depth = 133.05 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mawlaik. Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Mawlaik (c. 44 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 78 km SSE of Mawlaik, Burma.
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