Videos show the time of the earthquake of 7.7 in Burma and Thailand

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March 28, 2025March 28, 2025By Mario Vásquez
Videos show the time of the earthquake of 7.7 in Burma and Thailand

The epicenter of the earthquake was 16 kilometers from the city of Sagaing, in Burma, at a superficial depth of 10 km, the United States geological service (USGS) indicated.

The shaking broke roads, which were furrowed by deep cracks, He collapsed buildings and swept the well -known Ava bridge.

The level of devastation forced the Military Board to govern the country to launch an unusual request for international aid and declare the state of emergency in six regions.

The European Union, France and India already expressed their willingness to send help.

The earthquake, whose epicenter was located near the Burmese city of Mandalay, He was followed by a strong magnitude replica 6.4 A few minutes later and since then the earthquakes continue in the area.

The General Hospital of the Naipyidó capital, located 250 kilometers from the epicenter, received hundreds of victims.

A doctor from this center informed the AFP that At the moment they accounted for 20 dead and that there are many injured.

“I never saw anything similar. We are trying to handle the situation,” said a doctor.

Before the hospital saturation, many injured were treated outside the enclosure, on the ground or on makeshift stretchers. Some victims shouted with pain and others lay on the ground, with intravenous roads on the arm, while they were comforted by their relatives.

The Chief of the Governing Board Min Aung Hlaing visited the hospital, confirmed journalists from the AFP.

The unusual request for help from the Burmese military is an indication of the proportion of damages and the possible magnitude of the balance of victims, in a country where infrastructure and health system is razed by four years of civil war.

“Please help”

The earthquake shook the north of Thailand and also the capital Bangkok, about 1 thousand kilometers away from the epicenter.

Thai authorities decreed the state of emergency in the capital, where a building under construction of more than 30 floors collapsed with dozens of workers inside.

Vice -Prime Minister, Phumtham Wechayachai, told journalists that at least three workers died and that 81 are trapped in the rubble, a crushing of irons and remains of cement blocks.

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“When I arrived to inspect the place, I listened to people asking for help,” Worapat Sukthai, deputy director of the Bang Sue district, told AFP.

“We had never experienced an earthquake with such a devastating impact,” he said.

“Something instinctive”

In the Thai capital, the population is used to tremors and is trained to seek refuge outside buildings, but this Friday’s earthquake caused shock.

“I was buying in a shopping center when I noticed some indications of movement and ran out,” said Attapong Sukyimnoi, a stockbroker. “I knew I had to get to an open space, it was something instinctive.”

The earthquake It also felt in the Chinese province of Yunnanbordering Burma, according to the China Seismic Networks Center (CENC).

The earthquakes in Burma are relatively common. Between 1930 and 1956, six earthquakes of magnitude 7 or higher were recorded in the Sagaing fault, which runs from north to south the center of the country, according to the USGS.

The vertiginous rhythm of development of birmanos cities, combined with precarious infrastructure and poor urban planning, make the country vulnerable to earthquakes and other disasters.

In addition, Burma is plunged into instability from a military coup in February 2021 that triggered a bloody repression and army fighting with armed ethnic groups and dissidents.

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