Highly effective earthquake hits Myanmar, felt in Bangkok – DW – 03/28/2025

A powerful and prolonged tremor was felt by residents within the Thai capital, Bangkok, on Friday, with buildings swaying and outlets and places of work evacuated.

Germany’s GFZ for geosciences stated the epicenter of the 7.3 magnitude earthquake was in neighboring Myanmar, citing preliminary stories. It was recorded at a shallow 10 kilometers (6.2 miles).

The USA Geological Survey (USGS) in the meantime stated the earthquake had a 7.7 magnitude.

What else do we all know concerning the earthquake?

 However witnesses stated folks ran out into the streets of Bangkok after feeling the highly effective tremors. Water splashed out of swimming swimming pools, witnesses added.

A highrise constructing underneath development collapsed in Bangkok because of the earthquake, police instructed the Related Press information company. The French AFP information company cited medics as saying 43 employees had been trapped.

Some metro and lightweight rail strains had been suspended because of the quake.

“I heard it and I used to be sleeping in the home, I ran so far as I may in my pyjamas out of the constructing,” Duangjai, a resident of common vacationer metropolis Chiang Mai, instructed AFP after tremors had been felt throughout northern and central Thailand.

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra stated she interrupted an official go to to the southern island of Phuket to carry an “pressing assembly.”

Thailand’s inventory alternate introduced coming to a full halt after the quake.

The place else had been the tremors felt?

The earthquake’s epicenter was positioned 16 kilometers northwest of town of Sagaing in Myanmar at round 12:50 p.m. native time (0620 GMT/UTC), the USGS stated.

An AFP journalist within the metropolis of Naypyidaw south of Sagaing stated roads had been buckled by the pressure of the earthquake, with chunks of ceilings fallen from buildings.

“We’ve began the search and going round Yangon to verify for casualties and harm. Up to now, we’ve got no info but,” an officer from the Myanmar Fireplace Companies Division instructed the Reuters information company. Yangon lies some 620 kilometers south of Sagaing.

Unverified social media posts additionally confirmed harm in Mandalay, Myanmar’s historical royal capital that’s on the centre of its Buddhist heartland.

“All of us ran out of the home as the whole lot began shaking,” a witness within the metropolis instructed Reuters. “I witnessed a five-storey constructing collapse in entrance of my eyes. Everybody in my city is out on the highway and nobody dares to return inside buildings.”

Aside from Thailand, the tremors had been additionally felt in China’s southwest Yunnan province. Beijing’s quake company measured the jolt at 7.9 in magnitude.

China’s International Ministry stated it was intently following stories on the tremors.

It is a growing information story. Please refresh for updates.

Edited by: Sean Sinico