March 29 (UPI) --The death toll from a 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar rose to ... "When the quake hit, we were on U Bein Bridge in Mandalay, a city of around 1.5 million people," Zu Guolin ...

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In Myanmar’s Mandalay, buildings were toppled, the royal palace was damaged, and the road-and-rail Ava Bridge ... and Japan, have building codes designed to withstand earthquakes, the ...

The Quad grouping of India, Australia, Japan and the U.S. said in a joint statement on Thursday (April 3, 2025) that it was ‘coordinating efforts’ to provide assistance to earthquake-hit Myanmar.

A mega-thrust earthquake from the Cascadia Subduction Zone would be as strong as magnitude 9 or higher, on par with the 2011 Tohoku quake that decimated the coast of Japan, causing nearly 20,000 ...

Earthquake-proofing buildings and infrastructures appear to be the weakest link in the national government’s efforts to be ...

The elegant bridge was used by the former Japanese National Railways on its ... pier from the south end toppled in the Tokachi-Oki earthquake, and the upper part of the fourth column broke off ...

Myanmar's military is limiting humanitarian aid in numerous earthquake areas ... and outside the venue protesters hung a banner from a bridge reading: "We do not welcome murderer Min Aung Hlaing." ...

The Ava Bridge was previously blown up by the British in 1939 as Japan invaded, having been built under Empire rule in 1934.

More from World US defense chief calls Japan ‘indispensable’ in countering China ... Myanmar after the March 27, 2025, earthquake, and the same bridge on March 23 (bottom). The death toll from the 7.7 ...

The collapsed Inwa Bridge over Irrawaddy River near Mandalay, Myanmar. (Photo: AFP) Countries like Japan and Chile, having learned from past catastrophes, have taken proactive steps to reduce ...