A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Yamethin in Burma (Myanmar). Exact location, longitude 96.2045° East, latitude 20.2084° North, depth = 14.384 km. Unique identifier: us6000qyul. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000qyul. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 14:31:00 / 2:31 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/25 / 2025-08-07 14:31:00 / August 7, 2025 @ 2:31 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.384 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Meiktila, Taungdwingyi, Pyinmana (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Nay Pyi Taw (c. 925 000 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Meiktila (c. 177 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Pyinmana (c. 97 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Taungdwingyi (c. 70 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Yamethin (c. 59 900 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 25 km SSE of Yamethin, Burma (Myanmar).
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