6.9 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar

                             




6.9 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar

The survey report folks geologic shows that
Myanmar was smitten with a powerful earthquake.

The U.S. geologic Survey reports, with shaking felt across the region.
The 6.9 magnitude quake transpire at a depth of around 140km (87 miles), north-west of Mandalay. there have been no initial reports of any fatalities.
The tremor can be felt within the north-east Indian state of Assam, wherever the Duke and noblewoman of Cambridge area unit staying.
The royal couple, WHO area unit staying during a parkland, were unscathed.
People in Myanmar's main town, Yangon, within the Bangladeshi capital capital of Bangladesh, and in metropolis in Republic of India fled buildings in panic once the tremor smitten.
Tremors area unit comparatively common in Burma (formerly referred to as Burma). This earthquake occurred at intermediate depth, in step with the USGS, which suggests it transpire inside the Indian tectonic plate because it subducts at a lower place Eurasia.
While such earthquakes could also be felt at the layer, they're less possible to cause severe injury.
An Associated Press news organization newsman in Rangoon rumored seeing a seven-storey hospital shake throughout Wednesday's two-minute quake, inflicting employees and patients to escape the building.
People crowd onto the road throughout associate degree earthquake in Agartala, capital of India's north-eastern state of Tripura (13 Apr 2016)Image copyrightAFP
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The quake sent folks on to the road all told affected areas, as well as Agartala, capital of India's Tripura state
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Many of Myanmar's far areas have inadequate communications and infrastructure, as well as the realm wherever the earthquake hit.
The Chinese official Xinhua news organization same robust tremors were additionally felt in Thibet, with several residents of Lhasa drawn out on the streets.
Shaking was intimate with within the Assam capital Guwahati, wherever wall-mounted tv sets at a neighborhood television station were rumored to possess been sent bally to the bottom.
Britain's blue blood William (left) associate degreed Kate noblewoman of Cambridge take an open vehicle campaign within the Kaziranga parkland in India's north-eastern state of AssamImage copyrightAP
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The royal party felt the quake beside various others in Burma, Republic of India and China
The British royal party are visiting Assam's Kaziranga parkland.
"We felt the tremor terribly powerfully, however all is okay,'' British Deputy diplomat Scott Furssedonn-Wood, WHO is staying within the same jungle resort because the royal couple, was quoted by AP as expression.
The royal couple area unit disbursement Wednesday night within the park and can jaunt neighboring Kingdom of Bhutan on Th.
An earthquake measure six.7 magnitude hit north-east Republic of India in January, close to its borders with Burma and Asian country, killing a minimum of 9 folks.
In March 2011, a minimum of seventy five folks died once a robust earthquake hit Burma close to the borders with Laos and Asian nation.