Satellite photos from the Myanmar earthquake reveal the scale of the destruction in Mandalay and nearby places.
In Mandalay, Myanmar, following a powerful earthquake in central Myanmar on March 28, 2025, people ride motorcycles past a damaged building. | Photo Credit: Reuters
Images from the capital, Naypyidaw, show rescue workers removing casualties from the debris of collapsed buildings in another severely damaged city in Myanmar.
What caused the earthquake at Myanmar
Experts claim that because the earthquake was near the Earth's surface and happened along the Sagaing Fault, it produced strong seismic forces. Nearly 800,000 people in Myanmar may have been inside the area of the most intense shaking, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Geological Survey, and it is likely that at than 1,000 people died, if not more.
Recent years have seen a number of earthquakes strike Sagaing; in late 2012, a 6.8 magnitude event claimed at least 26 lives and injured hundreds more.
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