Motorists passed through a damaged building after hitting Mandalay Mandala in Myanmar on March 28, 2025
one The 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, causing widespread damage when a center near Myanmar’s second largest city, Mandalay, hit Myanmar, and the tremor was strong in Thailand and China. The earthquake ruptured along the Sagan fault, followed by a strong 6.4 amplitude aftershock and caused extensive damage.
A 33-storey building near the popular Chatuchak market in Bangkok, Thailand’s capital, collapsed. The footage of the building’s demise shows that the onlookers deviate from the rubble in panic.
As of Saturday morning, local authorities reported at least six deaths, 26 injured and nearly 50 missing, according to the Associated Press.
According to the Associated Press, the death toll from the earthquake has exceeded 1,000, citing government officials Saturday morning, and the number is expected to increase as recovery efforts continue. In addition, authorities have reported more than 2,300 injuries and about 30 missing. Myanmar military chief, senior king Min Aung Hlaing, will be treated in the country’s capital Naypyidaw on Saturday.
Joe Freeman, a Myanmar researcher at Amnesty International, said in a statement that the country’s earthquake “can’t be at a worse time” because it still comes from the military coup in 2021 and the subsequent displacement of the masses in the civil war.
Myanmar’s ruling military government declared a state of emergency in several areas affected by the earthquake on Friday and called for humanitarian aid in a rare international appeal, according to reports from a local television speech.
The United Nations allocated $5 million to begin relief efforts. The Myanmar government also said that blood donation has a high demand for injuries. The Myanmar Red Cross team is reportedly working to connect hospitals and clinics with emergency blood donation.
You will see the damage caused by the devastating earthquake in the picture below.
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