Scores of workers trapped in Bangkok building collapse after Myanmar earthquake

A beardown 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar connected Friday, causing officials to state a authorities of exigency successful Myanmar and Bangkok, the superior of neighbouring Thailand.

At slightest 3 radical were killed and 90 operation workers stay missing aft the quake caused a 30-storey gathering successful the superior to illness successful Bangkok's Chatuchak Park area.

Seven were rescued from the rubble of the collapsed building, the National Institute for Emergency Medicine said successful a Facebook post.

A video circulated connected societal media showed the multi-story operation sway and crumble into a unreality of particulate arsenic onlookers screamed and ran.

Thai authorities person declared a authorities of exigency successful effect to the large earthquake hitting the city, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said connected Friday.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the earthquake was shallow with a extent of 10 kilometres. Its epicentre was adjacent the Burmese metropolis of Sagaing, adjacent to Mandalay.

A 2nd quake, with a magnitude of 6.4, shook the country 12 minutes later.

State of exigency successful Myanmar

In Myanmar, state-run MRTV said the the military-run authorities declared a authorities of exigency crossed six regions and states.

There were nary contiguous casualties reported successful the country, wherever galore areas are not easy accessible and the authorities is embroiled successful civilian warfare aft a coup successful 2021.

The Red Cross said archetypal reports from the crushed suggested the earthquake caused "significant damage", adding that damaged powerfulness lines were preventing their teams from reaching the affected Mandalay and Sagaing regions.

Photos and videos showed the earthquake damaged portion of the erstwhile royal palace and buildings adjacent its epicentre successful Mandalay.

A 90-year aged span collapsed successful the Saigaing region, arsenic sections of the road connecting Mandalay to Yangon were damaged.

The quake caused alarms to spell disconnected successful buildings crossed Bangkok, and thousands of residents ran down the staircases of high-rise apartments and hotels onto the street. Videos connected societal media showed radical gathering successful the streets of the Thai capital.

The tremors were forceful capable to nonstop h2o sloshing retired of pools, immoderate precocious up successful high-rises, arsenic the tremor shook.

Paul Vincent, a tourer visiting from England, was astatine a streetside barroom erstwhile the quake struck.

“When I saw the building, ohio my God, that’s erstwhile ... it deed me,” helium said. “There was radical crying successful the streets and, you know, the panic was horrendous really.”

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra warned Bangkok residents to stay calm arsenic the metropolis prepared an exigency response.

“I’d similar to inquire everyone to enactment calm and bash not panic, but delight beryllium careful,” Shinawatra said, informing that determination could beryllium imaginable aftershocks.

More than 17 cardinal radical unrecorded successful the greater Bangkok area, galore of whom are successful high-rise apartments.