More than 2,700 lives have been lost and thousands more injured or missing in the aftermath of a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar last week. As search and recovery efforts continue, humanitarian groups are urging people around the world—and right here in North Texas—to step in and help. One of those groups is Human…
Early Friday, a major 7.7 magnitude earthquake that originated near Mandalay, Myanmar, shook the Earth as far as Bangkok, about 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) away. Two hard-hit cities in Myanmar suffered extensive damage, with images from the capital, Naypyidaw, showing rescue crews pulling victims from the rubble of collapsed buildings. Authorities in Bangkok said deaths…
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Myanmar’s military rulers say at least 1,002 people killed following earthquake that also left at least 10 dead in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok. The death toll from a huge earthquake that hit Myanmar and Thailand has passed 1,000, as rescuers dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings in a desperate search for survivors….
BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to over 1,000 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed when it struck near the country’s second-largest city. The country’s military-led government said in a statement that 1,002 people have…
Myanmar’s military chief, Min Aung Hlaing, arrives to meet earthquake survivors gathered in the compound of a hospital in Naypyidaw. Hlaing said he expected the death toll to rise and urged ‘any country, any organisation’ to help with relief efforts. Photograph: Sai Aung Main/AFP/Getty Images Source link
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. was going to help with the response to Southeast Asia’s deadly earthquake. But the effects of his administration’s deep cuts in foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department will likely be tested in any response to the first…
As rescue and recovery efforts continue across the Southeast Asia earthquake zone, many people in the Bay Area with ties to both Myanmar and Thailand have been watching with worry and trying to figure out how to help. Wai Phyo, the vice president of the Myanmar Cultural and Community Center in Union City, said Friday…
Myanmar has been hit by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake, which also affected neighbouring Thailand, its tremors felt as far afield as Cambodia and India. Much of the devastation caused by Friday’s quake appeared to be in Myanmar’s ancient capital of Mandalay, close to the epicentre in the Sagaing region, where buildings toppled and infrastructure buckled….
Two powerful earthquakes rocked southern Cuba in quick succession on Sunday, US geologists said, just days after the island was struck by a hurricane that knocked out power nationwide. The quakes cracked walls and damaged homes, but did not appear to have caused any deaths, according to preliminary reports. They left many residents running into…