Tue, 05/06/2025 - 16:58
Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, accompanied by Council Joint Secretary General Ye Win Oo and officials, yesterday afternoon inspected the loss and damage at sports buildings of Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex caused by the Mandalay earthquake in Nay Pyi Taw.
On arrival at Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex established on 31 January 2013, the Senior General viewed round the damage at the stadium and tracks, stands and gates. Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Jeng Phang Naw Taung and officials conducted the Senior General round the complex.
After hearing the reports, the Senior General stressed the need to repair the damaged parts of Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex with the systematic examination of technicians and experts from relevant organizations. Emphasis must be placed on strengthening the buildings as spectators and athletes will arrive at the time of competitions. He underscored that systematic repair must be done at 400-metre tracks and seats from the stands.
The Senior General also inspected Wunna Theikdi Gymnasium A and B established on 31 May 2013 and Wunna Theikdi Swimming Pool built on 30 May 2013 and heard reports on loss and damage of the buildings by officials.
In his response, the Senior General said that although these gymnasiums have some parts of damage, technicians and experts need to systematically examine the strengthening of buildings where indoor games take place. Priority must be given to strengthening and safety of buildings in repair and maintenance.
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Tue, 05/06/2025 - 16:57
It is necessary to address emergency needs such as communications, electricity supply, and clean drinking water.
Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win, who is also the Chairman of the National Disaster Management Committee, attended the emergency coordination meeting of the National Disaster Management Committee yesterday morning at the meeting hall of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement in Nay Pyi Taw. During the meeting, he discussed the swift implementation of rescue and relief operations in earthquake-affected areas. In his opening address, the Vice-Senior General highlighted that in Sagaing Region, Mandalay Region, and Nay Pyi Taw Council Area, the damage and losses caused by the earthquake are more severe.
He recounted that the Chairman of the State Administration Council and Prime Minister inspected the damaged staff housings, the 1,000-bed general hospital, and bridges and roads within Nay Pyi Taw Council Area immediately after the incident on 28 March, giving necessary instructions. He has also travelled to Mandalay Region to provide guidance on urgent needs and to offer words of encouragement to quake-affected people.
He underscored that as of the time of this meeting, the death toll has reached 1,101, with a total of 2,644 injured. Since the initial earthquake, there have been 14 aftershocks recorded, ranging from a minimum of 2.8 to a maximum of 7.7 on the Richter scale. The tremours originated at a depth of approximately 10 miles, making them more intense and causing greater destruction and losses. As service personnel from the ministerial housings in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area move to safer places due to the impact of the earthquake, relevant Union Ministers have to give words of encouragement to the personnel. It is necessary to provide food and clean drinking and utility water.
The Disaster Management Centre has to ensure that international aid is delivered as quickly as possible to the necessary locations and distributed without delay. Relevant ministries should collect and fulfil the needs of staff in affected areas based on the current situation. Due to the destruction of public roads, bridges, and landslides causing transportation difficulties, both short-term and long-term plans should be implemented for rapid repairs. Emergency needs such as communications, electricity supply, and clean drinking water must be addressed.
Vice-Chair 2 Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr Soe Win, Union ministers and the Nay Pyi Taw Council Chairman discussed loss and damage in the earthquake, arrivals of rescue aeroplanes and supplies, setting the routes for the transport of rescue vehicles, renovation of the communication and transport facilities, loss and damage of staff housings, numbers of casualties of staff and families and the injured, allocation of the funds and further plans for relief and rehabilitation measures.
In his response, the Vice-Senior General discussed the construction of the tents for personnel from the relevant staff housings, daily supply of safe drinking water with the use of five water tankers, sales of vegetables and groceries by vehicle for staff, providing emergency cash assistance for staff and families, drawing the social security fund by NDMC for staff of the Ministry of Labour, rehabilitation measures, assistance for staff’s mental and physical strengthening, security measures, assignment of liaison officers for international aid teams to do smooth process in search and rescue operations, accommodation, rescue and distribution of medications to be coordinated with NDMC members.
The meeting was also attended by Council Secretary General Aung Lin Dwe, council members, Union ministers, the Nay Pyi Taw Council chairman, the commander of Nay Pyi Taw Command and deputy ministers. The Vice-Senior General inspected damage in the earthquake in Lewe and staff housing in Bala Theikdi Ward of Zabuthiri Township and viewed rescue and relief operations. He also inspected ongoing rescue and relief measures at Ottarathiri Private Special Hospital in Ottarathiri Township and coordinated reports of officials. At Nay Pyi Taw General Hospital (1,000-bed), the Vice-Senior General inspected arrangements for the temporary medical wards, supply of drinking water for patients and maintenance of buildings and instructed officials to provide the mobile operation theatre and X-ray vehicle from the Defence Services General Hospital.
The Vice-Senior Genera also visited the Obstetric and Gynaecological Hospital (300-bed) and Defence Services General Hospital (1,000-bed) where he viewed healthcare services for families of Tatmadaw members and civilians and readiness of operation theatres and hospital equipment. After attending to the needs of officials, the Vice-Senior General presented cash assistance to patients.
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Tue, 05/06/2025 - 16:55
International humanitarian aid continues to arrive in Myanmar for earthquake victims.
A plane carrying 13 Malaysian rescue members led by Wan Zainal Abidan Bin Wan Yaacob, relief supplies, items, blankets and foodstuffs weighing 10,888 kilogrammes arrived at Nay Pyi Taw Tatmadaw Airport from Kuala Lumpur Subang Airport yesterday morning.
Similarly, another plane from Malaysia carrying 13 rescue members led by Mohd Hafifi Hafidz Bin Abd Razak, relief supplies, items, blankets, foodstuffs, and kitchen utensils weighing 8,212 kilogrammes arrived at Nay Pyi Taw Tatmadaw Airport on the same morning.
Furthermore, the MAI flight carrying 15,250 kilogrammes of relief items from Kuala Lumpur International Airport arrived at Nay Pyi Taw Tatmadaw Airport in the afternoon, and Vice-President of Myanmar Red Cross Society Dr Daw Tin Tin Lay received the items.
Similarly, the flight carrying humanitarian aid such as 194,000 kilogrammes of medicines and tents, and the Belarusian team led by Deputy Minister of Ministry of Emergency Situation of Belarus Aleksandr Khudoleyev arrived at Nay Pyi Taw Tatmadaw Airport on the same evening, and the relevant officials on behalf of National Disaster Management Committee welcomed them.
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Tue, 05/06/2025 - 16:54
Chairman of the National Disaster Management Committee Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win inspected the loss and damage in the recent earthquake, repairing process and healthcare services for the injured people in the earthquake in Bago Region yesterday morning.
At the historic NandawU Lawkamarazein Pagoda in Toungoo, the Vice-Senior General viewed collapsed parts including the diamond orb and the pennant-shaped vane and gave instructions to officials to systematically repair the damaged parts of the pagoda in its original state.
NandawU Lawkamarazein Pagoda was built by King Badon in 1161 Myanmar Era with the title of NandawU Yanaungnaing. In 1280 ME, Sayadaws U Obhasa and U Acara developed the pagoda and its construction was completed in 1290 ME. The pagoda was christened NandawU Lawkamarazein with the hoisting of a new umbrella.
On arrival at Toungoo Central Prison being built in Ketumati, the Vice-Senior General heard reports on construction sections for the prison by officials. He visited the construction site and instructed officials to build the prison with a design to endure the impacts of earthquakes. He ordered officials and quality control experts to check the construction process once every two weeks or once a week. He urged all to use quality construction materials and seek necessary technological assistance from the Ministry of Construction.
At Toungoo Technological University, the Vice-Senior General heard reports on the loss and damage of the university in the recent earthquake and identified dangerous buildings presented by the pro-rector. The Vice-Senior General inspected damaged buildings and lecture halls and instructed officials to inspect the strengthening of buildings with the technical assistance of experts from the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Science and Technology and repair ones to be completed before the rainy season.
Toungoo Technological University possessing ISO 9001:2025 is an advanced technological university. The institution taught Civil, EC, EP and mechanical subjects till the 2018-19 academic year but it extended teaching with IT and MC majors from 2019-2020 AY.
At Toungoo Hospital, the Vice-Senior General asked earthquake-affected patients about conditions of injuries, healthcare services and current health conditions and presented foodstuffs and cash to patients and cash awards to hospital staff.
Due to the impacts of the Mandalay earthquake, a total of 67 inpatient people received medical treatment. So far, there remain eight patients under treatment, and 59 patients have been discharged from the hospital.
On arrival at Shwehsandaw Pagoda, the Vice-Senior General looked into collapsed parts of the umbrella, some degree of tilting of the umbrella and some cracked parts. He instructed officials to repair the necessary parts as quickly as possible to ensure the safety of pilgrims. He supplicated repairing of the pagoda in its original state with the necessary technology to Shwelinyon Sayadaw Aggama Saddhammajotikadhaja Bhaddanta Aravinda Bhivamsa of Yadanagonmyint Monastery at Gandawin Koekhan Ordination Hall. State Ovadacariya Aggamaha Pandita Aggamaha Ganthavacaka Pandita Bhaddanta Suriya of Kyanikan Monastery gave advise to the Vice-Senior General who also supplicated plans of the best rehabilitation measures against the impacts of the recent earthquake.
The Vice-Senior General also oversaw loss and damage at the three-storey Yamanya Lecture Building of Toungoo University, Government Technical Institute (Toungoo), student hostels and staff housings. He gave instructions on the formation of a team comprising relevant experts to inspect the strengthening of buildings and reconstruct necessary buildings as quickly as possible. He also urged officials to demolish dangerous buildings with the safety of electricity. He presented cash awards to firefighters, faculty members and staff participating in rehabilitation processes.
The Vice-Senior General looked into damage to the Swa Creek Bridge at milepost 165 on the Yangon-Mandalay Expressway, maintenance of a road section, and construction of a bailey bridge.
Bridge Task Force 10 of the Department of Bridges under the Ministry of Construction is building the Swa Creek Bridge. At present, the bridge can allow the rolling of under five-tonne vehicles. As of 9 April, it can admit 20-tonne vehicles for driving.
Initial statistics stated loss and damage as well as dead and injured people in the Mandalay earthquake. It destroyed 71 pagodas, 186 monasteries, 92 schools, 15 religious schools, 200 departmental buildings, 289 other buildings, 1,736 residential buildings and some roads and bridges. In the incident, a total of 44 people were dead and 234 people injured.
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Tue, 05/06/2025 - 16:53
Deputy Prime Minister and Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Than Swe received Dr Md Monwar Hossain, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, yesterday morning at the Ministry of Foreign Affair in Nay Pyi Taw.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of Myanmar expressed his appreciation to Bangladesh for providing humanitarian assistance and sending medical teams to Myanmar in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake. Both sides discussed working closely in the rescue and relief efforts of the victims of the earthquake. They exchanged views on ways to further strengthen bilateral ties, including fostering closer economic cooperation, and on potential initiatives to promote trade and investment between the two countries.
Moreover, Deputy Prime Minister and Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar received Ms Noriko Takagi, Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to Myanmar, yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw.
They discussed matters related to supporting the people affected by the earthquake in Myanmar.
In addition, Deputy Prime Minister Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Than Swe received representatives from Humedica and International Medical Corps, INGOs, yesterday afternoon at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw.
They discussed matters related to supporting the people affected by the earthquake in Myanmar, particularly in the area of medical services. Also present at the meeting were senior officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Tue, 05/06/2025 - 16:52
The very strong earthquake and its aftershocks on 28 March destroyed roads, bridges and buildings in Sagaing, Mandalay, Magway and Bago regions, northeastern Shan State and Nay Pyi Taw Council Area, leaving some people dead and injured. Currently, search and rescue operations are being conducted in relevant areas.
Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing yesterday morning inspected damage and losses in the earthquake-affected areas in Mandalay Region.
At the meeting hall of the Central Command Headquarters, Mandalay Region Chief Minister U Myo Aung, Sagaing Region Chief Minister U Myat Kyaw, the commander of Central Command and officials reported to the Senior General on losses and damage in the earthquake and ongoing search and rescue operations. In his response, the Senior General said that it is necessary to take immediate action regarding search and rescue operations, ensuring that the injured are transported as quickly as possible to the nearest hospitals or clinics to receive the required medical care from both Tatmadaw and civilian medical professionals. Proper arrangements should also be made for the dignified burial of the deceased. Those facing difficulties in finding shelter due to the damage and losses should be provided with temporary housing, similar to the arrangements made during the COVID-19 outbreak, as quickly as possible by the responsible authorities. It is necessary to systematically clear debris from collapsed buildings as quickly as possible. Taking lessons from this incident, old buildings must be checked under quality control while new buildings must be supervised to meet the set standards. Arrangements must be made for victims from the quake-affected areas to have accommodation, water and power supply. Airports and runways must be improved to effectively carry out search and rescue operations in relevant regions.
The Senior General viewed round collapsed buildings along the walls of the royal palace, damage to buildings and roads in Mandalay City, the collapse of the main building at Mandalay University, and the outbreak of fire. He instructed officials to expedite the search and recovery of individuals trapped in collapsed buildings, conduct search and rescue measures on priority, and reconstruct academic and health buildings as quickly as possible while conforming to the outlined standards.
The Senior General inspected arrangements to open a temporary hospital and relief camp for providing medical treatment to the injured people at the old airport in Chanmyathazi Township and gave necessary guidance.
He also looked into damaged buildings in the walls of the royal palace, and damaged parts of the wall near Sishay Gate and along the walls. At Mandalay General Hospital, the Senior General viewed round medical treatment for the patients who sustained injuries in the earthquake and offered support the patients. The Senior General urged the Ministry of Health and the Directorate of Medical Services to jointly provide healthcare to the injured as quickly as possible and instructed officials to transport the patients to Tatmadaw hospitals and temporary hospitals to solve difficulties in medical treatment for the patients.
At the temporary relief camp at the corner of 73rd and 30th streets in Chanayethazan Township, the Senior General presented relief items provided by the Disaster Management Department to quake victims. He also inspected the collapse of the eastern stairway of Maha Muni Buddha Image and Sagaing rail-cum-Bridge (Inwa) on the Sagaing-Mandalay Highway. He instructed officials to repair the railway which link Mandalay and Myitkyina as quickly as possible.
On arrival at Masoeyein Taikthit in Mahaaungmyay Township, the Senior General viewed the damage and losses in the earthquake and sought the advice of the Presiding Patron of the monastery Sayadaw Bhaddanta Vasettha Bhivamsa and gave instructions to officials on the supply of water and electricity for the monastery, and clearing debris from the collapsed buildings.
At the annexe to Pariyatti Sasanahita Association of Mandalay, the Senior General looked into the collapses of the four-storey building and searched for monks in the damaged buildings. He urged officials to accelerate search and rescue operations. At Sky Villa in Aungmyethazan Township, the Senior General fulfilled the needs for search and rescue operations for the loss and damage in the earthquake. At the meeting hall of the Central Command Headquarters, the Senior General met with Mandalay Region Chief Minister U Myo Aung, Sagaing Region Chief Minister U Myat Kyaw and officials. He said that it is necessary to continue verifying and collecting accurate records of deaths, injuries, and missing individuals by respective regions and states. It is also essential to distribute and provide prompt medical treatment to those injured through hospitals, clinics, and temporary medical centres. Additionally, all military and civilian hospitals, as well as healthcare workers, must work together in a coordinated and efficient manner to ensure effective medical response. All Tatmadaw and civilian hospitals and health staff have to harmoniously emphasize healthcare services for injured victims in earthquakes. It is necessary to systematically and urgently remove the collapsed and partially damaged buildings to ensure safety in the surrounding areas. Only by doing so can the environment be free from hazards. Arrangements must be made to systematically accommodate those residing in temporary shelters. The damaged main building of Mandalay University needs to be reconstructed as soon as possible while maintaining its original structure. The reconstruction must ensure durability and a safe design. Furthermore, necessary measures should be taken to support the earthquake-affected people by providing food, shelter, and other essential social services.
The government must continue efforts with full dedication to rebuild and restore roads, bridges, and government buildings destroyed by the earthquake. This will require significant financial resources, manpower, and machinery. Moreover, cleaning and restoration efforts must be carried out swiftly. When distributing relief supplies, it is essential to ensure that all affected individuals receive what they rightfully deserve in an organized and systematic manner. Proper records must be maintained to prevent duplication and to ensure that no one is left out. All responsible authorities must act with strict discipline to ensure fairness and transparency. The authorities have to undertake extensive restoration efforts and prioritize tasks to ensure the fastest possible recovery.
Union ministers and officials reported on relief and rehabilitation for the affected areas, public awareness measures, and requirements of the work process. The Senior General attended to the needs.
The Senior General flew over Mandalay City to inspect the loss, damage and collapse of Sagaing Bridge (Inwa). He also viewed some damaged parts of the runway at Mandalay International Airport and gave guidance to officials to immediately repair the damaged parts.
According to the latest collected records up to the present time, a total of 1,644 people died and 3,408 were injured, and 139 missing due to the earthquake across all affected regions nationwide. Detailed records are still being gathered. Union Ministers Lt-Gen Tun Tun Naung, U Tin Oo Lwin, Dr Nyunt Pe and Dr Thet Khaing Win who accompanied the Senior General inspected the damage to relevant ministries and fulfilled the requirements.
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Tue, 05/06/2025 - 16:51
The Governor and Deputy Governors of the Central Bank of Myanmar inspected the damage to the Central Bank of Myanmar, office buildings in Nay Pyi Taw, construction of temporary tents, including accommodation, commodities and food donations for staff and systematic donations.
The operations of the Central Bank of Myanmar run in proper momentum and also operate the banking system with the financial institutions through the Electronic Payment System and FX Platform for foreign currency.
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Tue, 05/06/2025 - 16:44
NUMEROUS blood donors gathered to participate in an emergency blood donation event for earthquake victims from other townships at Minbu District Hospital in Magway Region, on 29 March.
Following the 28 March earthquake, staff and volunteers from townships in Minbu district donated blood to victims at Minbu District Hospital.
By the evening of 29 March, a total of 70 departmental employees and volunteers had donated blood, categorized by their blood types, at the blood bank of Minbu District Hospital, where relevant officials provided them with nutritional supplements. The regional government is currently arranging the timely distribution of these 70 donated blood bottles to hospitals in the affected townships under its supervision.
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Tue, 05/06/2025 - 16:43
Union Minister for Information U Maung Maung Ohn received the first batch of relief supplies donated by the State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) of China through the Myanmar Consulate General in Kunming for the earthquake-affected people yesterday in Nay Pyi Taw.
First, the Union minister appreciated the donation and explained the damage after the earthquake, rescue operations, measures to ensure access to electricity and drinking water, arrangements to resume the office operations and rehabilitation processes.
Then, an official from SPIC clarified the donation and committed further assistance.
Then, they presented the relief supplies to the Union minister.
Similarly, the officials of SPIC donated the relief supplies for the Ministry of Electric Power.
The first batch of supplies includes 400,000-yuan worth of ration, commodities and insecticide.
Plans are underway to donate 500,000-yuan worth of supplies as the second batch while one million yuan worth of items will be in the third batch.
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Tue, 05/06/2025 - 16:41
By Hu Wo (Cuckoo’s Song)
Human beings and nature can never be separated from each other so they always go together all through human history. Humans must have relied on the natural environment for their chances of survival — food, clothing, and shelter — since the turn of human existence. Thus, we humans have to encounter natural phenomena, whether they have good or bad consequences, often occurring in the world. Among these phenomena, natural disasters are the worst that can threaten human life and property at the very least as well as mostly cause death. The most common natural disasters happening around the earth include storms, tornadoes, landslides, mudslides, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Out of those disasters, an earthquake is a totally unexpected catastrophe which can lead to mass death and destruction even within a split second.
So, what in the world creates earthquakes? As we all know, our earth is formed of layers and the earth’s surface, about 100 kilometres thick, is made of large pieces. When the pieces of the surface layer move against each other, an earthquake takes place. A large movement of the layer’s pieces makes a violent earthquake and their small movement a mild one, respectively. Usually, it takes an earthquake only a few seconds to come about and the rolling movements are called seismic waves. Seismic waves begin in an earthquake focus directly below the epicentre of an earthquake and spread outwards, lasting about twenty minutes to travel around the earth. Furthermore, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions often go hand in hand, to wit, earthquakes are responsible for volcanic eruptions or vice versa from the point of view of geography.
By the year 1935, scientists started using the Richter Scale to measure the magnitude of an earthquake. In general, the strength of a seriously destructive earthquake puts a figure of 6.5 and above on the Richter Scale. Quite scientifically, people have no feeling or destruction about an earthquake which measures below 2.0 in the annually estimated range of 1.3 million vibrations. Similarly, minor earthquakes which quantify 2.9 and 3.0, shaking 130,000 and 13,000 times per year respectively, cause little or no destruction to humans. Like the earthquake with 3.0, a moderate earthquake with 4.0 does so, but people will noticeably feel things shaking when it occurs. Much destruction will arise in densely populated areas during a strong earthquake with 5.9, hitting 1,300 times a year. But severe earthquakes with the strength of 6.9, 7.0 and above, striking the times of 10-20 yearly, will give rise to mass destruction.
Unlike other natural disasters, no one, including scientists, can predict an earthquake at all, especially a few days before the earthquake really happens, except several years ahead of the earthquake outbreak. Accordingly, people tend to lead their normal lives without becoming aware of the unexpectedly coming natural disaster. However, earthquake zones are not scattered anywhere apart from certain places where the surface pieces of the earth meet. This makes earthquakes shake the same places again and again, for instance, on the west coasts of North and South America, around the Mediterranean Sea and along the Pacific coast of Asia. What is more, such changes on the earth’s surface as a sudden drop in water level in the ground may be seen before earthquakes. And the way animals do strange like chickens sitting in trees, fish jumping out of the water, or snakes leaving their holes would be found just before earthquakes break out.
By the time an earthquake starts to occur, most earthquake victims usually do not know in a while that the earthquake is moving. They will feel dizzy to a greater or lesser degree as soon as the earthquake happens. Due to this dizziness, most of them like to sit still only in the site where they are during the movement of the earthquake, not knowing whether they get protected over there, except that some go out and run from their buildings to open ground, as far as I am aware. Try to think. As Sayagyi Shwe Ou Daung stated, since the ground on which we are standing safely is rolling and rocking violently beneath our feet, no wonder that we are terrified of the earthquake out of our wits. Of course, any roofed building, high-rise or low-rise buildings included, except for earthquake-proof or earthquake-resistant buildings, is insecure during and even following an earthquake. Hence, it would be best if we stay as far from high buildings and tall trees as possible shortly after an earthquake.
Of course, earthquakes can be categorized into three types: foreshocks, mainshocks and aftershocks. To my certain knowledge, people mainly suffer from the second type. Following an earthquake, earthquake survivors can die from not only a lack of food, water and medical supplies but also tsunamis, fires and snake bites. The amount of destruction caused by an earthquake depends on where it happens, what time it happens, how strong it is, types of buildings, soil conditions and population. I know that of the 6,000 earthquakes in the world each year, only about fifteen cause great damage and many deaths. After a devastating earthquake, the death toll from the earthquake commonly continues to rise as always and collapsed or tilted buildings in earthquake-hit regions are many. As usual, an earthquake is strong enough to cause damage only near its epicentre, yet it is highly dangerous for people living in an earthquake zone or earthquake-prone region. To crown it all, an earthquake destroys human life and ancient buildings that can by no means be saved and gained once again.
Unfortunately for us, our country Myanmar is located along the Sagaing fault, which is long from north to south. That is why Myanmar deadly faces earthquakes in Yangon, Bago, Mandalay and Sagaing regions. On 28 March 2025, an earthquake which measured 7.7 on the Richter scale occurred at 12:51 pm at a depth of 10 kilometres with an epicentre near Saye village, Sagaing Township, Myanmar. For the second time, another earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 happened near Mandalay Airport at 1:02 pm. Thousands of people were killed in this Sagaing earthquake, I suppose. Also owing to the earthquake, the very religious infrastructures were broken down, sad to say. These infrastructures included Mya Thein Tan Pagoda, Shwe Sa Yan Pagoda, Sone Ou Ponya Shin Pagoda and Menu Brick Monastery as far as I can see. So were other priceless buildings such as Sagaing (before Inwwa) Bridge, the Clock Tower, Mandalay University, old-age mosques and churches. It will be said that the Sagaing Earthquake is the worst in Myanmar earthquake history.
Following earthquakes, rescue teams and relief supplies are the life of earthquake sufferers. Rather than do’s and don’ts before, during and after an earthquake, people should not live in probable earthquake sites despite that these places are of natural beauty, productive soil and large existing centres of population. If they have to live there, they should always expect earthquakes, be prepared to protect their lives and property or build safer buildings and roads ahead of time. Hospitals and electric power stations need to be away from possible earthquake zones. When an earthquake starts, people will have to protect their heads from any damage and stay safe in such places as doorways or bathtubs at first if they live in a building and are unable to run away from there very quickly. In actual fact, even seismologists cannot still predict earthquakes. Humans can control many things about nature, but unfortunately for them, these things do not include earthquakes. Earthquakes are given to reach different parts of the world out of the blue, also bringing massive loss of life and the natural environment.
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