M 4.8 in Myanmar on 16 Oct 2025 06:57 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1505419
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 185.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.8187 , 95.5076
Event Date: 16 Oct 2025 06:57 UTC
16 Oct 2025 13:27 Local
Exposed Population:
1.4 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 16 Oct 2025 07:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rhhd Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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A tremor hit Yangon 10/18/2025 3:05:00 AM.

on November 4 and residents from Ahlone, Kyauktada and Botahtaung townships felt the shake, sources said. “The movement occurred around 11:20 am and I thought a container truck crushed into something. But I didn’t see anything when I looked
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Myanmar discusses strengthening regional disaster resilience 10/17/2025 10:35:00 AM.

A Myanmar delegation led by Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr Soe Win, currently in Cambodia to attend the 13th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Disaster Management (AMMDM), joined the dinner hosted by Cambodian offi
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What the Myanmar earthquake taught us: Why sonic boom quakes are no lo.. 10/17/2025 8:53:00 AM.

Sonic boom quakes like the one in Myanmar are not limited to Southeast Asia. Faults in California, Japan, Turkey, and even parts of the Himalayan belt could produce similar events. Because the rupture travels faster than expected, shock ene
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),