International help arrived in Myanmar on Saturday when the rescuers searched for survivors after a strong earthquake devastated the Southeast Asian nation, the fear of increasing the number of fatalities.
According to the military government of the country, the number of persons registered in Myanmar from 144, as reported by the state media on Friday. Another 2,376 people are injured and 30 others miss.
The government suggested that the numbers could continue to rise and said that “detailed figures are still collected.”
“Infrastructure such as streets, bridges and buildings were affected, which led to victims and injuries to the civilians. Search and rescue operations are currently being carried out in the affected areas,” said Junta in a statement published in state media.
The Junta leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, had warned of more deaths and injuries on Friday when he invited “every country” to provide help and donations.
A Chinese rescue team came in on Saturday, while Russia and the USA offered help in the disaster, which met on Friday at lunchtime and damaged hundreds of buildings in neighboring Thailand.
The Predictive Modeling of the United States Geological Service (USGS) estimated that the number of fatalities in Myanmar could exceed 10,000 people, and that losses could be greater than the value of the country’s gross domestic product.
Susan Hough, a scientist in the USGS danger program, told Reuters that it was difficult to predict the number of fatalities of an earthquake for various reasons, including the time.
When an earthquake hits the case in myanmar during the day: “People are awake, they have their minds about them, they can answer better,” she said.
Looking for workers in tower debris
Much of the devastation was in Myanmar’s second largest city of Mandalay near the Epi Center of the Stem.
In the Thai capital of Bangkok, 1,000 kilometers from the epicenter, a rescue mission was set up on Saturday to find construction workers under the ruins of a collapsed 33-story tower.
A strong earthquake rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, killed several people, brought a skyscraper under construction in Bangkok and stormed buildings in neighboring Myanmar, where the ruling Junta declared a state of emergency in some areas.
A 37-member team from China landed in Yangon, Myanmar’s former capital early Saturday, and wore medication and equipment to recognize signs of life with them, the Chinese message said in a Facebook post.
Russia said 120 experienced rescuers, doctors and search dogs, reported the state news agency TASS.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he spoke to civil servants in Myanmar and his government would provide a form of help.
Hough, who worked in Myanmar in the local seismology network, said that the mix of modern structures and traditional buildings in the country would also play a role. Traditional buildings “will be less potentially fatal than concrete,” she said.
The Thai authorities said nine people died and missed in Bangkok in 101, mainly workers who were trapped in the ruins of the collapsed tower.
“We will do everything we will give up, we will save lives, we will use all resources,” said the governor of Bangkok, Chadchart Sittipunt, on Saturday, as an excavator debris and drones to look for the rubble for survivors.
The Thai capital has been standing standing and Chadchart said on Friday that hundreds of people had spent the night in city parks, but he said the situation improved.
