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MANDALAY, Myanmar – Before-and-after outer imagery is revealing the wide demolition caused by a almighty 7.7-magnitude earthquake, which is believed to person killed thousands crossed Myanmar and neighboring Thailand.
The quake, which struck adjacent Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, connected Friday, was felt hundreds of miles distant and impacted tens of millions of residents passim Southeast Asia.
Satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies, a Colorado-based company, showed the devastation, with homes destroyed, bridges collapsed and spiritual sites turned into ruins.
According to estimates from the United States Geological Survey, the lawsuit marked the astir destructive earthquake successful Myanmar successful implicit 100 years and the deadliest since a bid of earthquakes struck Syria and Turkey successful 2023, sidesplitting astatine slightest 150,000.
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Search and rescue efforts were launched instantly aft the earthquake, but authorities person reported slowdowns owed to damaged infrastructure.
"Supply infrastructure and connection towers were severely impacted, energy and h2o services were disrupted, including successful the Yangon Region. Landline, mobile, and net networks stay unstable. Damage to the Yangon-Nay Pyi Taw-Mandalay expressway caused work disruptions, with cracks and aboveground distortions halting road buses," the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said successful a preliminary report.
Countries and organizations, including the European Union and Malaysia, person pledged enactment for the affected region, with hunt teams from China and India already connected the ground, searching for victims trapped successful the debris.
Seismologists noted that the region’s brushed ungraded apt amplified the effects of the seismic waves, making structures peculiarly susceptible on the Sagaing Fault.
While Myanmar has experienced earthquakes successful the past, the caller 7.7-magnitude quake is the top lawsuit successful caller history.
Potentially complicating alleviation efforts are ongoing interior hostilities, which showed fewer signs of abating successful the days aft the earthy disaster.
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People inspect the debris of a collapsed gathering successful Mandalay connected March 28, 2025, aft an earthquake. A almighty earthquake killed much than 20 radical crossed Myanmar and Thailand connected March 28, toppling buildings and bridges and trapping implicit 80 workers successful an under-construction skyscraper successful Bangkok. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
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A damaged pagoda is pictured successful Mandalay connected March 29, 2025, a time aft an earthquake struck cardinal Myanmar. Rescuers dug done the rubble of collapsed buildings connected March 29 successful a hopeless hunt for survivors aft a immense earthquake deed Myanmar and Thailand, sidesplitting much than 150 people. (Photo by SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP via Getty Images)
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TOPSHOT - People thrust connected a motorbike past a collapsed gathering successful Mandalay connected March 28, 2025, aft an earthquake successful cardinal Myanmar. A almighty earthquake rocked cardinal Myanmar connected March 28, buckling roads successful superior Naypyidaw, damaging buildings and forcing radical to fly into the streets successful neighbouring Thailand. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
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People look connected adjacent to a collapsed gathering successful Mandalay connected March 28, 2025, aft an earthquake successful cardinal Myanmar. A almighty earthquake rocked cardinal Myanmar connected March 28, buckling roads successful superior Naypyidaw, damaging buildings and forcing radical to fly into the streets successful neighbouring Thailand. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
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People stitchery astir a collapsed gathering arsenic dense operation instrumentality is utilized to determination the debris successful Mandalay connected March 28, 2025, aft an earthquake successful cardinal Myanmar. A almighty earthquake rocked cardinal Myanmar connected March 28, buckling roads successful superior Naypyidaw, damaging buildings and forcing radical to fly into the streets successful neighbouring Thailand (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
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People basal past the debris of a collapsed gathering successful Mandalay connected March 28, 2025, aft an earthquake. A almighty earthquake killed much than 20 radical crossed Myanmar and Thailand connected March 28, toppling buildings and bridges and trapping implicit 80 workers successful an under-construction skyscraper successful Bangkok. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
According to the U.S. State Department, the state of much than 54 cardinal radical has been embroiled successful a civilian war, with assorted factions controlling definite regions.
"Since the subject seized powerfulness connected February 1, 2021, astatine slightest 5,350 civilians person been killed, and much than 3.3 cardinal displaced. Over fractional the colonisation is surviving beneath the poorness line, chiefly owed to unit perpetrated by the nationalist equipped forces," the U.N.’s quality rights bureau antecedently stated.
Significant harm from the quake was besides reported successful China and Thailand, wherever video captured the illness of a 30-story gathering nether construction successful Bangkok, perchance sidesplitting dozens of workers.
The portion is bracing for weeks of important aftershocks, though seismologists accidental the likelihood of a tremor surpassing the strength of the archetypal quake is highly low.
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