Two 7.0 Quakes Hits Burma

Two earthquakes hit the southeast Asian country of Myanmar, also known as Burma, on March 24, 2011. The Myanmar earthquakes occurred less than a minute apart and could be felt as far away as Bangkok, Thailand.

The Myanmar 2011 earthquake measured at 7.0 on the Richter Scale, just six miles deep. The second Myanmar quake was also a 7.0 magnitude, but was 140 miles deep.

The Myanmar quake hit along the border between Myanmar Thailand, and Laos.

There were no concerns that the Myanmar earthquake could generate a tsunami.

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Powerful quake kills many in Myanmar


Rangoon, March 25 2011: At Least 74 people have died in a strong earthquake that struck Burma, with fears that the toll will rise as news from remote areas are still cut off.

Tremors were felt as far away as Bangkok, almost 800 kilometres from the epicentre, as well as in Hanoi and parts of China.

The US Geological Survey measured the quake at magnitude 6.8.A Burmese official said 74 people were killed and 110 were injured in five areas close to the epicentre.

More than 240 buildings had collapsed.

Across the border, Thai authorities said a 52-year-old woman was killed in Mae Sai district after a wall in her house collapsed.

In Rangoon, the Burmese country director for the charity World Vision, Chris Herink, said there did not appear to be ''catastrophic'' damage to infrastructure.

Our real concern is more of the rural areas.

There will be more casualities, I am afraid to say, unhappy information has been coming throughout the day, he said.

The epicentre of the quake "is a hilly area near the border between Thailand and Laos, the so-called Golden Triangle.

There is a lot of commerce that goes on in the area.'' World Vision helps care for about 7000 children sponsored by overseas donors in the affected areas.

The quake struck 90 kilometres north of Chiang Rai and 235 kilometres north-north-east of Chiang Mai, Thailand's popular tourist destination.

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Seriously. Do you even have to post this? Earthquakes happen everyday anywhere. No need for a thread like this, IMO.

^Wow, that's ignorance.

Anyways, I have never felt an earthquake ever in my life, so I feelreally worried about this. Especially since Japan and Myanmar are both very near to Philippines.

I didn't see anyone post a thread about the earthquake in Dominican Republic days after Japan's. Not every damn earthquake needs to be posted to scare everybody about "2012" because that's the only reason why I think some people care to enter, the posts aren't even sympathetic. :-/

^IKR.

As others have say earthquakes happen all the time,nothing to with 2012 crap.

The OP does not intend to scare people with '2012' thingy.
All I'm saying is that this is already posted, so instead of arguing that this shouldn't be posted, let's just pray and be together for the natural disasters. It's really sad to hear these kind of things.

Over hundred people died

People should move away from the parts of the world where earthquakes happen.


They never happen in the UK and most of Europe.

1755 Lisbon earthquake, with estimated death toll of 100,000, is considered to be one of the deadliest earthquake in history.

Nowhere in the world is safe from earthquakes.

It depends where you are on the tetonic plates.


If your in the middle of one there wont be earthquakes e.g. the UK. Japan was in between two plates which caused the quake.

Right... 9,5

That's my entire country....