“There is no report of major damage in Tripura, Mizoram, Assam and adjoining areas of the northeast yet”.
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The quake also was felt in half a dozen states in neighboring India, where people rushed out of offices and homes at several places. Others swept walkways leading to temples that had been engulfed in huge clouds of dust when the tremor struck; the iconic tops of some of the pagodas had collapsed.
“About 60 pagodas in Bagan were damaged”.
“Government officials and representatives of ethnic armed groups ran away from the building during the JICM meeting”, he said, referring to a Joint Implementation Coordination Meeting held yesterday between the government and several ethnic armed organisations.
Computer models from the USGS estimated that some 41.8 million people across the region may have felt Wednesday’s natural disaster, including roughly 1.5 million people who may have experienced strong shaking.
The temples, built between the 10th and 14th centuries, are revered in the Buddhist-majority country and a top draw for its growing tourism industry.
However, police officer Htay Win in Pakokku, about 45 miles from the epicenter, said one person there had been killed, and one was injured.
Myanmar, which has opened its doors to a rising tide of visitors since emerging from junta rule in 2011, is eager to see the ancient capital designated a UNESCO world heritage site. “Two buildings collapsed as well, while some others were cracked. People in town are still scared”. Officials were still surveying the damage, reported Channel News Asia. “Several of our staff who’ve lived in this part of Myanmar their whole lives said it was the strongest quake they’ve ever felt”. In Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, people were seen coming out onto the streets while the underground city railway service was disrupted.
It occurred a day after a magnitude 5 quake hit the Myanmar-India border.
“My house shook during the quake”.
BAGAN – Myanmar took stock of toppled spires and crumbling temple walls in the ancient capital of Bagan on Thursday, after a powerful quake hit the country, killing three and damaging the top tourist destination.
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In fiscal year 2014-15, roughly 242,000 tourists who visited the zone generated about US $4.1 million, according to a May 2015 article in the Myanmar Times which cited figures from the Bagan branch of the Archaeology and National Museum Department.
