More than 2,700 people have been killed and 4,500 injured after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit Myanmar last Friday.

A deadly earthquake on March 28 collapsed buildings in central Myanmar but rumours that the country's most sacred Buddhist site has crumbled are inaccurate. An AFP reporter confirmed the Shwedagon pagoda in the commercial hub Yangon has not been destroyed,

Shelter, clean water and medicine are in short supply following the earthquake in Myanmar that has caused significant structural damage and had a devastating human toll, the United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday.

Emergency aid has streamed into Southeast Asia in the two days since a massive earthquake struck Myanmar and Thailand.

A phenomenon called liquefaction, which causes the ground to slump like quicksand, led to significant damage after the Myanmar earthquake. The risk of aftershock remains high.

Myanmar, also known as Burma, is in the throes of a prolonged and bloody civil war, which is already responsible for a massive humanitarian crisis.

A huge earthquake, which hit Myanmar and Thailand last Friday afternoon, has killed over 1,700 people. Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speaks with Jeshua Loh, Founder of Crossworks Myanmar, a HR agency in Yangon,

The death toll from Myanmar’s powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake keeps climbing amid rescue efforts. The military government said Saturday that 1,644 people have been killed.

Jagat Patnaik, Head of Asia and Country Engagement at ActionAid International, said: “Thousands of lives have been lost, homes destroyed, and many communities remain cut off. People fled with nothing,