A strong earthquake in Myanmar. According to official data, at least 150 people were killed, and hundreds were injured. However, the US government estimates that on the basis of strength and depth of earthquake could have been thousands of dead. Military Hunt in Myanmar declared a state of emergency and asked for international assistance. The earthquake was felt in Thailand, where at least nine people were killed, and more than a hundred consider missing.
Square of soil 7.7 degrees per Richter scale, and then the subsequent earthquake of 6.4 – as it seems, know the inhabitants of one of the world’s poorest countries. Witnesses state that the devastating earthquake collapsed many residential buildings, then the hotel, the bridge and kindergartens in Sagañu and Mandalaj, where the mosque was collapsed and during this morning’s prayer.
While dramatic recordings are circulating social networks, the number of victims and the scale of the damage yet because the military hunt, which is in power 2021. year, it is strictly controlled by almost all media, and the use of the Internet is limited.
“We will just find out the proportions of damage, but we can assume that the consequences will be pretty much. And that will be especially difficult for people who are already in a prolonged crisis in the country,” said Marie Manrique, the Coordinator of the International Federation of the Red Cross in Myanmar.
The epicenter of the earthquake was at a depth of 10 kilometers and 16 kilometers northwest of the town of Sagaing. According to the analysis of the U.S. Department of Geological Research based on the strength and earthquake depth, it is possible that thousands of persons have been killed.
“When there is a strong soil shake near the place where people live, there may be damage to buildings and deaths,” William Yeck pointed out in the US Geology Institute.
The U.S. government estimates that a large number of victims and great damage are as probable as that there is a large scale catastrophe. Myanmarska Hunta sent an international appeal to help and declare a state of emergency in six regions. Leader Hunte General Min Aung Hlaing said in television address that he opened channels for international assistance and accepted the help from India and the block of Southeast Asian countries, better known as ASEAN.
“Our team there is in contact to fully mobilize the resources to help the people of Myanmar, but the epicenter in Myanmar, and that is in the current situation,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres pointed out.
The earthquake was felt in both the north and in the central part of Thailand, especially in Bangkok, where rescuers are searching for dozens of missing during the collapse of the construction.
Except in Thailand, the earthquake was felt in China. The Chinese Newhua News Agency announced that strong soil shakes were felt in the southwestern province of Junan, which borders Myanmar, where these recordings come from – when the water from the peak of one building referred passers-by.
(Type / Source: federal.ba/Autorica: Verica Kalajdžić / photo: FTV)
