(28 Mar 2025)
MYANMAR EARTHQUAKE
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bangkok, Thailand – 28 March 2025
1. Various of collapsed building and emergency services at scene
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Edinburgh, UK – 28 March 2025
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Brian Baptie, Seismologist at British Geological Survey:
"Well, the earthquake was very large. It had a magnitude of 7.7. So earthquakes of that size can generate very, very strong ground shaking. Severe ground shaking. And if you combine that with the fact that the earthquake was at a shallow depth, that means the strength of shaking is really quite intense. And then you have around about 2.8 million people in Myanmar exposed to shaking that you might describe as severe or violent. Many of those people are in buildings that are really quite vulnerable to earthquakes."
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Naypyitaw, Myanmar – 28 March 2025
3. Various of damaged temple
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Edinburgh, UK – 28 March 2025
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Brian Baptie, Seismologist at British Geological Survey:
"Typically people in the region are living in sort of timber buildings, galvanised iron, an unreinforced brick masonry buildings. All of those buildings are really quite vulnerable to earthquake shaking. So when you get a big earthquake where there are lots of people and vulnerable buildings, there are likely to be quite severe consequences in terms of building damage and potentially fatalities."
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Naypyitaw, Myanmar – 28 March 2025
5. Various of damaged house
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Oxford, UK – 28 March 2025
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Walker, Professor of Active Tectonics at University of Oxford:
"The continent of India is moving northwards into Asia with rates of a few centimetres per year and at the eastern side of India, that motion is, is happening on a on a few big faults, which are again moving at a few centimetres per year. They are generally locked by friction by the surrounding weight of rock around them, and so they’re getting more and more stretched all the time until eventually they can’t stretch anymore, and they break. And all of that motion that’s stretched across them is then turned into slip on the fault. And that’s what we will have been seeing in the earthquake that occurred over this last day."
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Bangkok, Thailand – 28 March 2025
7. Wide of water falling from rooftop swimming pool on Bangkok high-rise
8. Various of damage in a condo
9. Wide of fallen masonry outside condo
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oxford, UK – 28 March 2025
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Walker, Professor of Active Tectonics at University of Oxford:
"What we will also be seeing over the coming days is we will find more and more news of the extent of the damage. Right now we’re seeing news from the major population centres. But this earthquake of this size and in the region where it is, where there’s so much population spread in towns, villages, sometimes remote regions. We will be seeing more and more of the full extent of that damage as the news reports develop over the coming days. So sadly, this is an inevitable thing that in the first few hours we only get a part of the story and that the full story will be developing as we continue."
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Bangkok, Thailand – 28 March 2025
11.Various of residents and office and shop workers out in street after earthquake
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Edinburgh, UK – 28 March 2025
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