{"id":70508,"date":"2025-03-28T21:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/mar\/28\/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-bangkok-mandalay-latest-news-updates"},"modified":"2025-03-29T03:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:04:58","slug":"thailand-and-myanmar-earthquake-death-toll-rises-as-bangkok-declared-disaster-area-with-dozens-trapped-under-skyscraper-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70508","title":{"rendered":"More than 140 reported killed in Myanmar earthquake, as Thailand works to free dozens trapped under Bangkok skyscraper \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States Geological Survey said the quake was shallow, at a depth of just 10km (six miles) with the epicentre near the central city of Mandalay<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/28\/how-have-you-been-affected-by-the-earthquake-in-myanmar-and-thailand\">How have you been affected by the earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A 30-storey skyscraper under construction for government offices has collapsed in <strong>Bangkok<\/strong> trapping 43 workers, police and medics said, after the city was rocked by a strong earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the building in the north of the <strong>Thai<\/strong> capital was reduced to a tangle of rubble and twisted metal in seconds after the 7.7-magnitude quake in neighbouring <strong>Myanmar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/mar\/28\/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-bangkok-mandalay-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Geological Survey said the quake was shallow, at a depth of just 10km (six miles) with the epicentre near the central city of MandalayHow have you been affected by the earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand?A 30-storey skyscraper under constr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4654,"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-70508","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"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70508","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\/4654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70531,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70508\/revisions\/70531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}