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7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand

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I am Myanmar and reporting from Bangkok.

I was upstairs, at third floor and was going down to have lunch and it shook whole house. At first I thought I am having nausea due to not having any food yet then thing starts to shake violently almost knocked me off stairs . And glasses started to rumble.

A construction in Pathunam collapsed.

Some house of friends of mine in Mandalay - Myanmar collapsed. One girl managed to get out in time.

One construction in Mandalay collapsed - 2 died.

Historic Mandalay Palace wall and entrance collapsed .

Airport in naypyitaw collapsed, there are report of many airport workers died.

Bridges collapsed, one of the longest standing historic bridges of Myanmar - Sagaing Bridge collapsed.

One other bridge in Mandalay brings down two cars with it, casualties unknown.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18bsATAEKS/

Many Junta gov buildings collapsed

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BYV644DmY/

7 days agoby v3ss0n

I’m in Bangkok right now, didn’t even think about it being an earthquake and thought my building was coming down. Sprinted out of the building, watching our rooftop pool collapse and rain down debris and water.

I think that’s the most scared I’ve ever been, thinking that was it for me.

7 days agoby woutr_be

Mega quake centered on a major city in a developing economy state. Information is slow to come out because of the Junta no doubt but the death toll is likely to be far far larger then folks initially are reading.

So bizarre to see a lot more news coverage about places like Bangkok when the epicenter was on a large city in another country. But it's a reminder that information flows more slowly out of these closed societies

7 days agoby redwood

Felt it in Northern Thailand, I've lived through many earthquakes around here but this was on completely different level - usually I notice some open doors and hanging things shaking and can slightly feel it, but today I felt worried if my house is going to crash down and all my neighbors ran to the street. (our houses are built on ~1m stilts to protect from floods)

Sadly didn't receive a notification from Android this time, last time I got it about ten seconds before the shaking began.

7 days agoby bayesianbot

One of the craziest things - water falling out of the high rise building's roof top pool: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1jlpma0/...

7 days agoby animesh

Video of building under construction collapse:

Close up: https://x.com/nongmeaw33/status/1905511502435791007

Distant: https://x.com/120119_/status/1905515797234991340

7 days agoby themaninthedark

I was wondering about the collapsed building in Thailand that was under construction.

Do civil engineers take precautions for under-construction buildings? Do they minimize the risk somehow? I'm guessing there's inevitably a window during which an earthquake would be catastrophic, even if the end product is earthquake resistant.

7 days agoby lordnacho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Sagaing_earthquake

I'm in Hanoi, also about 1,000km from the epicenter (similar to Bangkok). Some people apparently felt tremors and building fixtures shaking, but nothing as serious as the videos I saw in Bangkok.

7 days agoby Ayesh

I'm living in Thailand for almost 40 years and this is the first time I have a nausea due to earthquake even it is very far from its origin. I can't imagine how much catastrophe the Myanmar has from this earthquake.

7 days agoby ultimaweapon

The video of a rooftop swimming pool waterfalling from a highrise building is wild ( https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c20d0nxr2lmo ).

Nothing compared to the high rise collapse though :/

7 days agoby defrost

That is big. Praying the people are okay and safe from Tsunamis. The Netflix documentary about the Boxing Day 2004 disaster is excellent.

7 days agoby keepamovin

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureI...

7 days agoby belter

I am living in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) Vietnam and today around one or so,a bit later, my wife was taking a nap and I was working in the computer. The building started to shake, I live in a tower.

I told my wife: it is an earthquake, did you notice? Look: I pointed to the frame of a door so that she could hold herself there to notice the shaking. Lean on it and do not move. She said: no, it is you. I turn back: look at the hanging lamp. The lamp was zig-zagging lol. Actually you can throw a nuclear bomb when my wife is taking a nap and she would continue sleeping. She is so insensitive for those things...

So when we went downstairs like 30 or 40 more people had also left their homes. It could also be noticed from Hanoi.

Here people noticed it in district 3, 10, Thu Duc, Binh Thanh and District 2 at least.

It was just replicas but hey, noticeable.

7 days agoby germandiago

Incredibly sad. The people of Myanmar were already suffering a terrible civil war.

7 days agoby hotep99

The tremors were felt all the way in Saigon and Delhi as well, so this was a fairly massive earthquake.

Hope everyone affected at ground zero in Saigang can get the help they need.

7 days agoby alephnerd

It is important to realize that the greatest effect and harm of a major disaster is often the result, not of the shaking, but rather in the social unrest that results from a government's inability to cope with the disaster. Given Myanmar's problematic government, that may be the case here. If you want examples, consider the Managua earthquake that led to the overthrow of Somoza or the 1976 Tangshan earthquake which contributed to the cultural turmoil accompanying the death of Mao that led to the end of the Cultural Revolution.

6 days agoby cc101

The earthquake seemed to be originated from Myanmar, but most reporting from Thailand. Is it because they are affected less?