{"id":70492,"date":"2025-03-28T16:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T07:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/28\/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-magnitude-thailand-tremors-bangkok"},"modified":"2025-03-29T02:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:19:39","slug":"strong-7-7-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-myanmar-with-tremors-felt-in-neighbouring-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70492","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar earthquake: at least 144 killed as rescues also continue in Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Junta makes rare call for aid as hundreds injured by 7.7-magnitude quake, which also brought down high-rise in Thai capital<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/mar\/28\/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-bangkok-mandalay-latest-news-updates\">Myanmar and Thailand hit by earthquake \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At least 144 people have died and 732 have been injured after a powerful earthquake struck Myanmar, killing at least nine more in neighbouring Thailand where a high-rise building under construction in Bangkok collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>The 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar at 12.50pm local time on Friday at a depth of 10km (6.2 miles). Its epicentre was about 11 miles (17.2km) from Mandalay, Myanmar\u2019s second-largest city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/28\/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-magnitude-thailand-tremors-bangkok\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junta makes rare call for aid as hundreds injured by 7.7-magnitude quake, which also brought down high-rise in Thai capitalMyanmar and Thailand hit by earthquake \u2013 live updatesAt least 144 people have died and 732 have been injured after a powerful ear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,263,82,1709,61,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-myanmar","category-natural-disasters","category-south-and-central-asia","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70533,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70492\/revisions\/70533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}