{"id":70529,"date":"2025-03-28T21:51:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/28\/what-caused-the-myanmar-and-thailand-earthquake-and-how-big-was-it"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:51:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:51:46","slug":"what-caused-myanmar-and-thailand-earthquake-and-how-big-was-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70529","title":{"rendered":"What caused Myanmar and Thailand earthquake and how big was it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death toll rises in both countries after tectonic plates rub sideways against each other along Sagaing fault<\/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>An earthquake with a 7.7 magnitude has hit central Myanmar, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has said, with Thailand\u2019s capital, Bangkok, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/28\/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-magnitude-thailand-tremors-bangkok\">among other areas affected<\/a>. We take a look at the origins of the event and the scale of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/28\/what-caused-the-myanmar-and-thailand-earthquake-and-how-big-was-it\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death toll rises in both countries after tectonic plates rub sideways against each other along Sagaing faultMyanmar and Thailand hit by earthquake \u2013 live updatesAn earthquake with a 7.7 magnitude has hit central Myanmar, the United States Geological Su&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"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":[41,50,263,2814,82,1709,61,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-earthquakes","category-geology","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\/70529","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\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70530,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70529\/revisions\/70530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}