At least 10 die as quake hits Myanmar borders
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March 25, 2011, Friday
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A MAGNITUDE-7.0 earthquake struck Myanmar near the border with northern Thailand yesterday, killing at least 10 people, police said.
Witnesses said the tremors were felt in southwest China and Bangkok, in central Myanmar, and Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, where people were evacuated from tall buildings.
Thai police said a 53-year-old woman in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai Province, was killed when a wall of her house collapsed.
The quake was centered 111 kilometers north of the town of Chiang Rai, Thailand's northernmost province.
Residents in south China's Yunnan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region also felt tremors. Myanmar borders Yunnan on the west and southwest.
Buildings shook for over a minute, reported villagers in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan.
In Nanning City, capital of Guangxi, many residents evacuated from buildings after they felt the tremors.
It is not known if there was any damage in China and no casualties have been reported.
The earthquake was just 10 kilometers deep, according to the United States Geological Survey.
"In my 40 years, I never felt an earthquake this strong," Thanawan Sisukniyom, a retired teacher in Thailand's Mai Sai, said. People in Chiang Mai, the country's second-largest city, reported no immediate damage.
Buildings swayed in Bangkok, about 770 kilometers south of the epicenter.
Max Jones, an Australian who lives in the Thai capital, was in his 27th-floor apartment when the building started shaking so hard he had to grab the walls to keep from falling.
There were no immediate reports of damage from the Myanmar side, a remote area where communications, even in the best of times, are difficult.
The quake was followed by two smaller aftershocks, 4.8 and 5.4 in magnitude.
Witnesses said the tremors were felt in southwest China and Bangkok, in central Myanmar, and Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, where people were evacuated from tall buildings.
Thai police said a 53-year-old woman in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai Province, was killed when a wall of her house collapsed.
The quake was centered 111 kilometers north of the town of Chiang Rai, Thailand's northernmost province.
Residents in south China's Yunnan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region also felt tremors. Myanmar borders Yunnan on the west and southwest.
Buildings shook for over a minute, reported villagers in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan.
In Nanning City, capital of Guangxi, many residents evacuated from buildings after they felt the tremors.
It is not known if there was any damage in China and no casualties have been reported.
The earthquake was just 10 kilometers deep, according to the United States Geological Survey.
"In my 40 years, I never felt an earthquake this strong," Thanawan Sisukniyom, a retired teacher in Thailand's Mai Sai, said. People in Chiang Mai, the country's second-largest city, reported no immediate damage.
Buildings swayed in Bangkok, about 770 kilometers south of the epicenter.
Max Jones, an Australian who lives in the Thai capital, was in his 27th-floor apartment when the building started shaking so hard he had to grab the walls to keep from falling.
There were no immediate reports of damage from the Myanmar side, a remote area where communications, even in the best of times, are difficult.
The quake was followed by two smaller aftershocks, 4.8 and 5.4 in magnitude.
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