Myanmar was struck by an earthquake on Friday with a magnitude of 5.6, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC). The depth of the earthquake was 144 km (89.48 miles), according to EMSC, and it was located approximately 112 km (69.59 miles) north-northwest of Monywa in Myanmar. Data from the National Center for Seismology indicate that the earthquake occurred about 162 km Northwest of Burma, Myanmar. At 23.09 latitude north and 95.01 degree east longitude, the epicenter was being watched.
Early on Friday, the northeast was shaken by two earthquakes, according to an official source. The first was centered in neighboring Myanmar, while the second was centered in Manipur. According to a report by the National Center for Seismology, a 5.2-magnitude earthquake with Myanmar as its epicenter was registered at 3.52 am. It was 140 kilometers below the surface. Guwahati and the the remaining parts of Assam experienced tremors. The second earthquake, which had a magnitude of 3.8, had its epicenter at Kamjong, Manipur, at a depth of ten km. According to the report, it occurred around 7:53 am. Like the recent earthquake the 2016 was not deadly but did send a tremor of wrath in the region. According to the National Center for Seismology, an earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale also occurred yesterday 150 kilometers north of Diglipur in the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
Not The First Time!
This is definitely not the first time, in 2016 a same case happen with a relatively larger magnitude. A powerful earthquake that hit Myanmar in 2016 caused the entire region to tremble. North-west of Mandalay, at a distance of around 140 km (87 miles), was where the 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurred. Initial reports did not indicate any fatalities. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were currently residing in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam where the tremor at that time was also felt there. Unharmed were the royal couple who’ve been resting in a national park. When the earthquake hit, people in Kolkata, India, the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, and Myanmar’s Yangon, the country’s largest metropolis, evacuated buildings in fear. In Myanmar, tremors are relatively frequent . The Indian tectonic plate, which is subducting beneath Eurasia, is where this 2016 earthquake occurred.  These earthquakes could be felt near the surface of the Earth, however they were not destructive. When the two-minute earthquake struck on Wednesday, a correspondent for the Associated Press in Yangon saw a seven-story hospital tremble, prompting workers and patients to leave the structure. Even in 2016, when the earthquake struck Agartala, the capital of India’s northeastern state of Tripura, people flocked to the streets. A lot of Myanmar’s rural communities, including the region where the earthquake occurred, lack basic connectivity and infrastructure. Strong tremors, according to the Chinese official Xinhua news agency in 2016, were also felt in Tibet, drawing many Lhasa inhabitants out onto the streets. Wall-mounted television displays at a local TV station in Guwahati, the capital of Assam, reportedly crashed to the ground as a result of the shaking. At the time, Prince William of Britain (on the left) and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, were in Assam. The Kaziranga National Park in Assam had been visited by the British royal party. The British Deputy High Commissioner Scott Furssedonn-Wood, who’d been staying at the same rainforest resort as the royal couple, was quoted by AP as stating, “We felt the tremor really strongly, but all is good.”
At least nine people were killed when an earthquake of a magnitude of 6.7 struck north-east India in January, close to its borders of Myanmar and Bangladesh. When a strong earthquake struck Myanmar in March 2011 close to the border with Laos and Thailand, 75 people were killed. The biggest earthquake in Myanmar still stands in the pages of 1956 when the earthquake killed many and occurred at the region of Sagaing
