Strong
7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Myanmar, with tremors felt in neighbouring
Thailand
Witnesses in
Bangkok more than 1,000km away said people ran out onto the streets in panic
Staff and
agencies
Fri 28 Mar
2025 07.15 GMT
An
earthquake of magnitude 7.7 has struck Myanmar, the United States Geological
Survey (USGS) said, causing hundreds of people to pour out of swaying buildings
in Bangkok, the capital of neighbouring Thailand 1,400km away.
USGS said
the quake on Friday was shallow, at a depth of just 10km (six miles) with the
epicentre near the central city of Mandalay, about 50km (30 miles) east of the
city of Monywa.
There were
no immediate reports of damage from the earthquake in Myanmar, which is in a
state of chaos after a coup in 2021.
Startled
residents in densely populated central Bangkok poured out of high-rise
condominiums and hotels. The greater Bangkok area is home to more than 17
million people, many of whom live in high-rise apartments.
The quake
was forceful enough to send water sloshing out of pools, some high up in
high-rises, as the tremor shook.
“I heard it
and I was sleeping in the house, I ran as far as I could in my pyjamas out of
the building,” Duangjai, a resident of popular tourist city Chiang Mai,
northern Thailand, told AFP.
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