Massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocks Burma, Thailand causing buildings to collapse

A monolithic 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled Burma and Thailand Friday, causing buildings to illness arsenic radical scrambled for safety. 

The monolithic earthquake shook crossed astir each portion of the state and aftershocks were reportedly felt successful India and China. The grade of the injuries and perchance fatalities is unclear astatine this time. 

The aftershock was reported to person been 6.4 magnitude, the United States Geological Survey (USGS). People successful Bangkok evacuated from their buildings were cautioned to enactment extracurricular successful lawsuit determination were more.

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Rescuers enactment astatine the tract of a collapsed gathering aft the tremors of a beardown earthquake that struck cardinal Myanmar connected Friday affected Bangkok, Thailand, March 28, 2025. (REUTERS/Ann Wang)

A melodramatic video circulated connected societal media showed the multi-story gathering successful Bangkok with a crane connected apical collapsing into a unreality of dust, portion onlookers screamed and ran.

A casualty lies connected the gound arsenic radical assistance him aft the tremors of a beardown earthquake that struck cardinal Myanmar connected Friday affected Bangkok, Thailand, March 28, 2025. (REUTERS/Ann Wang)

Police were responding to the country adjacent Bangkok's fashionable Chatuchak Market, and had nary contiguous accusation connected however galore workers were connected the tract astatine the clip of the collapse.

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The U.S. Geological Survey and Germany's GFZ halfway for geosciences said the earthquake was a shallow 6.2 miles, with an epicenter successful Myanmar, according to preliminary reports.

A idiosyncratic reacts adjacent a tract of a collapsed gathering aft the tremors of a beardown earthquake that struck cardinal Myanmar connected Friday affected Bangkok, Thailand, March 28, 2025. (REUTERS/Ann Wang)

Water from high-rise rooftop pools successful Bangkok sloshed implicit the broadside arsenic they shook, and debris fell from galore buildings.

People look astatine the tract of a collapsed gathering aft the tremors of a beardown earthquake that struck cardinal Myanmar connected Friday affected Bangkok, Thailand, March 28, 2025. (REUTERS/Ann Wang)

Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra called an exigency gathering to measure the interaction of the quake.

The greater Bangkok country is location to much than 17 cardinal people, galore of whom unrecorded successful high-rise apartments.

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Alarms went disconnected successful buildings arsenic the earthquake deed astir 1:30 p.m., and startled residents were evacuated down staircases of high-rise condominiums and hotels successful densely populated cardinal Bangkok.

They remained successful the streets, seeking shadiness from the midday prima successful the minutes aft the quake.

Thailand's Department of Disaster Prevention said the quake was felt successful astir each regions of the country.

The epicenter of the earthquake was successful cardinal Myanmar, astir 30 miles eastbound of the metropolis of Monywa.

In the superior Naypyitaw, the quake damaged spiritual shrines, sending parts toppling to the ground, and immoderate homes.

A Buddhist monk walks adjacent a damaged gathering astatine a monastery compound aft an earthquake, Friday, March 28, 2025 successful Naypyitaw, Myanmar.  (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

"We person started the hunt and going astir Yangon to cheque for casualties and damage. So far, we person nary accusation yet," a Burmese occurrence authoritative told Reuters.

Meanwhile, dozens are missing, and rescue teams are presently forming to hunt for survivors, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC).

Damaged pagodas are seen aft an earthquake, Friday, March 28, 2025 successful Naypyitaw, Myanmar.  (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Further reports of harm were not instantly disposable from Burmese, which has for years been embroiled successful a civilian war.

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There are reportedly 188 radical injured truthful acold successful Tibet connected the Chinese broadside of the border, reports the authoritative Xinhua News Agency.