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with brick buildings and houses on filled ground taking the worst beating. A huge section of a 200-foot cliff toppled into Puget Sound three days after the earthquake, producing a tsunami that ...

A catastrophic 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck in Myanmar on Friday has caused buildings to collapse and killed over 100 people while authorities race to rescue people trapped in rubble.

However, according to USGS, today's earthquake occurred at a depth of just 6.2 miles (10km). Professor McGuire says: 'This is probably the biggest earthquake on the Myanmar mainland in three ...

Indeed, this is the worst earthquake disaster to hit Thailand since 1956, when another 7.7 quake hit Myanmar. Certainly, at that time, there was panic in Bangkok due to collapsing buildings.