Quakedle
Puzzle #46 was 2025 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) Earthquake.
Quakedle is an educational game. Event details and tsunami indicators must not be used for emergency decisions; follow official local authorities and current USGS notices.
USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M7.7 — major class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 10.0 km — shallow
- Region
- The Himalaya and South Asia
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 2,545 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- red PAGER alert
- Tectonic plates
- Indian Plate · Eurasian Plate
- Tectonic context
- Continental collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates builds the Himalaya and deforms a broad part of South and Southeast Asia.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M7.7. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Major (M7.0–7.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 10.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “2025 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) Earthquake”. Which broad authored region matches?
- The Himalaya and South Asia
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- Is this the largest earthquake in the supplied USGS week comparison?
- Yes — it is the largest or tied for largest in the supplied week.