A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Myitkyina in Burma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/19 / 2019-08-05 09:43:03 / August 5, 2019 @ 9:43 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.6601 East, latitude 25.6958 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:13:03 / 4:13 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us600050ru. Event ids that are associated: us600050ru.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Myitkyina (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (51 miles) from Myitkyina (c. 90 900 pop).
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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 82 km WNW of Myitkyina, Burma.
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