{"id":70546,"date":"2025-03-29T14:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T05:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/29\/myanmar-earthquake-death-toll-rises-to-almost-700-as-search-for-survivors-continues"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T14:26:52","slug":"myanmar-earthquake-death-toll-rises-to-more-than-1000-as-search-for-survivors-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70546","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar earthquake: death toll passes 1,600 as search for survivors continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aid agencies warn of \u2018extremely difficult\u2019 response amid Myanmar\u2019s continuing civil war with true scale of disaster yet to emerge<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/mar\/29\/myanmar-earthquake-race-to-find-survivors-as-junta-confirms-huge-rise-in-death-toll\">Myanmar earthquake: latest news updates as death toll jumps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The death toll from a <a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/2025\/mar\/28\/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-magnitude-thailand-tremors-bangkok\">huge earthquake that hit Myanmar<\/a> has passed 1,600, as rescuers continue a desperate search for survivors and aid agencies warn of an \u201cextremely difficult\u201d response amid the country\u2019s continuing conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The shallow 7.7-magnitude quake struck central<a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/myanmar\"> Myanmar<\/a> on Friday afternoon, and was followed minutes later by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock. Witness reports and social media footage suggest extensive damage in Mandalay, Myanmar\u2019s second biggest city, where buildings, religious sites and main roads were either destroyed or damaged.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/29\/myanmar-earthquake-death-toll-rises-to-almost-700-as-search-for-survivors-continues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aid agencies warn of \u2018extremely difficult\u2019 response amid Myanmar\u2019s continuing civil war with true scale of disaster yet to emergeMyanmar earthquake: latest news updates as death toll jumpsThe death toll from a huge earthquake that hit Myanmar has passe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4655,"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":[41,263,82,61,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-myanmar","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\/70546","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\/4655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70562,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70546\/revisions\/70562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}