Concerned about the earthquakes in Thailand and Myanmar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday that he was prepared to provide whatever help that may be provided.

“I’m worried about the circumstances in Thailand and Myanmar after the earthquake. I’m praying for everyone’s health and safety. India is prepared to help in whatever way it can. We requested that our officials be vigilant in this respect. Additionally, he requested that the MEA maintain communication with the governments of Thailand and Myanmar,” he said on social networking site X.

According to Thai local media and eyewitness reports shared on social media, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake that rocked Myanmar on Friday afternoon caused tremors felt in Bangkok and many other regions of Thailand. As a result, hundreds of people rushed out of swaying buildings in Bangkok. Water spilling out of swimming pools was featured in a number of social media postings.

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the epicenter of the earthquake was located around 50 kilometers east of Monywa, close to the principal city of Mandalay, and it was just 10 kilometers deep.

Minutes after the earthquake, which occurred at around 11:50 am IST, there was a 6.4-magnitude aftershock. According to the National Center for Seismology, Myanmar was struck by an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9 on the Richter scale. This was the third aftershock after the first, which had a magnitude of 7.2.
Businesses in the Thai capital declared temporary closures due to the earthquake, while residents fled buildings, according to a Bangkok Post article.

According to the journal, the earthquake also caused a 30-story tower that was being built in the Chatuchak area to collapse.
43 people were trapped in the building that was still under construction, according to The Nation News, which quoted Thailand’s National Institute for Emergency Medicine.

In order to prevent aftershocks, Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra proclaimed Bangkok to be a “area of emergency,” urging citizens to leave towering structures.

approximately 380 miles from the epicenter, in Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial city, a resident told CNN, “We felt the quake for about one minute, and then we ran out of the building.” “We also saw other individuals fleeing the buildings. It came quite quickly and with great force.

According to another local, phone networks in the city, which has around 8 million residents, were momentarily unavailable after the earthquake but are now operational again, according to the CNN story.

A road bridge over the Irrawaddy River, which flows through Mandalay, seemed to collapse into the river in a mist of water and dust in footage that CNN was able to get from Myanmar.

Strong earthquakes were felt in numerous locations in Yunnan Province, which borders Myanmar, according to a report by China’s official broadcaster CCTV based on comments from internet users.

This earthquake’s epicenter is 294 kilometers from China’s closest border, and it caused powerful tremors in Yunnan Province’s Xishuangbanna, Dehong, Kunming, Lijiang, Baoshan, and Dali, among other places. CCTV also reported tremors in certain areas of Guangxi and Guizhou.