The budget of the violent 7.7 magnitude earthquake which hit Myanmar yesterday rose to over 1,000 deaths and 2,000 injured, the Council of the Asian country announces.
A devastating power earthquake, of magnitude 7.7, followed 12 minutes away from a second shock of 6.4, which hit the center of the town, with the USGS talking about the risk of ‘thousands of deaths’. The epicenter, according to the US Geosismic Institute, is located near Saigang, where a seismic fault passes that cuts the country in half along a north-south director, about twenty kilometers from the historic city and ancient precolonial capital of Mandalay, the second city of Myanmar on the banks of the IRRAWADDY river, where is it An iron bridge collapsedfull of ancient temples and pagodas and historical monuments. And where On social networks there are ruins and destruction and at least 25 deaths, including several children, in the collapse of a mosque.
The main earthquake, which originated only 10 kilometers deep at 2.20 pm, local time (07.50 Italian) specifies the USGS, hit with powerful effects also in China, in the remote mountainous province of Yunnan, and above all in Thailand, where in the capital Bangkok, a thousand kilometers from the epicenter, collapsed a 30 -storey skyscraper under construction, with dozens of missing workers (perhaps at least 80, according to some sources) and at least 4 ascertained victims. Tremors have also been warned in the neighbors Laos and Vietnam. In China, Nello Yunnanwho borders on the east with Burma, videos broadcast by the Chinese state broadcaster Beijing News show a road in the city of Ruili, on the Burmese border, scattered with debris and a dozen rescuers in orange suits and stands standing behind a security cord.
Scrolled 8 times higher than the highest ever recorded in Italy: 7.1 in Messina in 1908
Dramatic the effects illustrated by Professor Stramondo to the Corriere: «The soil is liquefy, there is an escape of fluids, buildings that tilt because the foundations no longer find a matter of support. Today’s earthquake resembles, even if it is infinitely more intense, to that of 2012 in Emilia, with the presence of non -consolidated alluvial deposits. Today’s one had a magnitude 300 times higher than the 2016 Amatrice earthquake and 8 times higher than the highest ever recorded in Italy, which is that of 7.1 in 1908 in Messina ».
Musumeci: “Italy ready to intervene to the rescue of the population of Burma”
“Italy is ready, with its civil protection, to intervene to the rescue of the population of Burma (Myanmar), torn in the past few hours by a catastrophic earthquake of magnitude 7.7 “: the Minister for Civil Protection and sea policies assured him, Nello Musumeci, After the violent seismic event that hit the country of Southeast Asia. “We wait for international procedures to be carried out to offer our contribution, according to the needs that will be requested,” added Musumeci.
The Golder Military Council, in power in Myanmar since 2021, has in fact launched an urgent appeal for humanitarian aid to the international community: an unusual move for a military government, which makes it glimpsed how disaster can have enormous proportions in a country renowned in poverty, isolated and traveled by armed conflicts. Among the first to offer help there is India, which also made available to Thailand. The budget of the victims, which is feared dramatic, is constantly updated, even if the information circulates with difficulty in the country. But the junta declared the state of emergency in six provinces: Sagaing, Mandalay, Bago, Magway and in the eastern state of Shan. The head of the military junta, Min Aung Hlaing, visited the main hospital of the modern capital Naypyidaw, has found the AFP, which gives an account of “wounded in mass” that accumulate inside and outside the structure, which houses 1,000 beds, with patients aligned on the ground outside the emergency room, assisted by the family with many who “twist from pain”.
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“I heard it and I was sleeping at home, I ran as far as possible in pajamas outside the building”, Duangjai, a resident of the popular tourist city of Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, told. The shocks were also felt in the South-Western Chinese province of Yunnan. The earthquakes are relatively common in Myanmar, where the sagaing fault passes in the north-south direction through the center of the town, according to the USGS. A powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake in the ancient capital Bagan, in the center of the town, in 2016 killed 3 people, causing the spiers and walls of many ancient temples to collapse. The violent earthquake that hit Myanmar was measured in magnitude 7.9 by China Earthquake Networks (Cenc), according to which the shock took place at 14:20 local (7:20 in Italy). The earthquake was also felt clearly in the Chinese province of Yunnan, on the border with Burma, based on what was reported by the CCTV state network.
Red alert of the US Geological Survey
The US Geological Survey has issued a red alert for victims and damage after the 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar. On his website we read that “it is likely that numerous victims and large damage occur and that the disaster is widespread”. The agency says that “thousands of deaths are likely to occur,” reports Sky News.
The earthquake that Myanmar had as its epicenter, caused the collapse of a 30 -storey skyscraper under construction in Bangkok, Where at least 43 workers are missing under the rubble. At least one ascertained dead was extracted. Several workers have been rescued, Thai medical services, mentioned by the Guardian, know. Direct images of the collapse of the building appeared on the media.
The informed pope of the earthquake in Myanmar, pray for victims
The Pope was informed of the earthquake that hit Myanmar and is praying for the victims and for the affected population. This was reported by the Vatican press room.
The red cross: in Myanmar a lot of damage, worry the dams
Public buildings and infrastructures were damaged and collapsed due to the 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar with concerns for the state of the dams on a large scale: the Red Cross said it, as reported by the international media.
“The public infrastructures have been damaged, including roads, bridges and public buildings. Currently we have concerns about large -scale dams,” said Marie Manrique, coordinator of the program for the international federation of the Red Cross to journalists in Geneva, through video connection from Yangon.
Caritas Myanmar: ‘Lost people, communications interrupted’
All the operators and operators of KmSS, Caritas Myanmar, “I am safe, but some of the houses where they live, in the diocese of Mandalay, have collapsed. Telecommunications are limited. The director of the Diocese of Mandalay reported that many people in the city are still dispersed. Thousands of victims are feared, it is impossible to contact their family members because of the interruption of communications”. Caritas reports it by adding that the National KmSS offices have activated the appropriate team for rapid evaluation of needs.