The powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake that shook the center of Myanmar on Friday He attacked a serious blow to a country that was torn from the civil war for four years. The information provided by the Military Council to Power reaches the abandonments and the exact number of victims continues to be uncertain, but the estimates of international experts warn that it could be very high because the tremor has occurred to a lot and in a densely populated region and with poor infrastructure. A projection of the United States geological service (USGS) estimates that the figure of death can exceed 10,000. At the moment, the death of 694 people in ancient Burma and you are in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, where the authorities updated the balance in the morning, which initially had been confirmed ten, but there are hundreds of missing. In both countries, the rescue units worked tirelessly all night in search of survivors.
The Myanmar authorities reported Saturday that the number of injuries amounts to 1,670, according to the state media, while the local government of Bangkok clarified that several people are seriously injured after The collapse of a scratch of 33 plants Under construction they were mistakenly dead. They specified that the victims are six and that there are 22 injured and 101 missing in three different works, including that of the skyscrapers that has been reduced to rubble in a few seconds. There was a team of 320 workers when the earthquake was recorded. The emergency brigades, who continued their activity all night to help drones and rescue dogs, reported that explosions continue to fall, which increases the difficulty of their mission and increases the risks both for the safety of people trapped and for assistance equipment.
The Leader of the Myanmar military council, El general min aung black, On Friday evening he said in a television speech that the balance of victims and injuries will increase. “I would like to extend an invitation open to all organizations and nations willing to help,” he said. It is an unusual request and did not make before the previous natural catastrophes. Min Aung Hlaing must face a request for arrest by the International Criminal Court and its government rarely collaborates with the international community.
According to the Burmese service of the BBC, the electricity and communication lines were lost in the two main cities of Myanmar, Yangon and Mandalay, which will complicate the rescue work. An operator cited by British television ensures that “most of the buildings collapsed” in Mandalay, while another told Reuters that around a fifth of the city’s real estate sector it was destroyed. Mandalay, the second largest city in the country (1.5 million inhabitants), a former capital of the Kingdom of Myanmar and the Buddhist religious center, is 17.2 kilometers from Earthquake of the earthquake and it is here that there has been greater devastation. Local media reported the destruction of buildings, bridges and roads. In the official count announced at the moment by the military authorities, Mandalay data are not included.
“The image is terrifying,” said the rescuer cited by the BBC, who also described scenes in which people “are running on the street, screaming and crying”. In addition, he confirmed that the city’s general hospital is overwhelmed and that its structures have undergone damage to the earthquake. For his part, the worker of the emergency teams who spoke to the Reuters agency says “had never experienced something like that”. “We receive calls from people who are trapped, but we cannot access because we do not have enough labor or machines to remove the rubble. But we will not abandon our work,” he continued.
Myanmar is one of the poorest nations in Asia e It is immersed in chaos from the stroke of February, 2021. The Tatmadaw (the army), which filed the democratic government of the Nobel Peace Prize Aung San Suu Kyi, does not control the entire territory. Many areas are governed by a mosaic of militias and opposition groups, which will probably carry out the arrival of humanitarian aid. This situation is also complicating the collection of reliable information.
The tremor on Friday raised the region around 12.50 (about six in the morning in Spain Peninsular). Eleven minutes later there was a replica of magnitude 6.7, the first and strongest of the 14 significant jolts that followed over several hours, as it shows an interactive map of the USGs. In addition to Myanmar and Thailand, the earthquake felt in Laos and in distant places such as the Bangladé, Vietnam and South -ovest of China. The USGS reports that the earthquake was caused by a slide in a failure between the busty plaques of India and Aurasia, the rescue fault, on which Myanmar is located and which crosses from north to south of the center of the Burmese territory. According to the USGS database, three 7.7 or higher earthquakes shook Myanmar or the surrounding environment in the last century
