London – An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 shook Southeast Asia on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey.
Ultrasound reported that the earthquake was in Mandalay, Myanmar, but at least one person was killed and 50 others were injured when a building that was being built collapsed in Bangkok when the earthquake struck the area on Friday, according to a number of unknown people in Thailand, the Red Institute of Emergency Medicine.
A police officer waved an ambulance when they arrived at the construction site where a building collapsed in Bangkok on March 28, 2025, after the earthquake. A strong earthquake shook Myanmar central on March 28, bending the road in the capital of Naypyidaw, damaging the building and forcing people to flee to the roads in the adjacent Thailand.
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Niem said there were around 320 construction workers at the location when the building collapsed in 70 people currently missing, according to a statement published on social media. Around 20 workers are still trapped in the elevator axis with the number of deaths that are expected to rise, Niem continued.
Alarm reportedly rang in buildings -Gedung throughout the capital of Thailand when the earthquake reached 1:30 pm, according to the Associated Press.
People gathered on the road after a strong earthquake hit Myanmar in the middle of Friday, said the earthquake monitoring service, which also affected Bangkok with hundreds of people flowing out of the buildings in the capital of Thailand in panic after vibration, in Bangkok, Thailand, March 28, 2025.
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“We are under the Sukhumvit Utama train station and we think the train has crashed into the initial vibration,” a British citizen in the capital of Thailand on a business trip and wants to remain anonymous to ABC News. “But then it continues, people start running outside and the hotels are evacuated to the streets.”
The Thai royal police said they helped evacuate people from buildings throughout the city to a safe area, according to a statement published on social media.
The rescue team was seen at the construction site where a building collapsed in Bangkok on March 28, 2025, after the earthquake. A strong earthquake shook Myanmar central on March 28, bending the road in the capital of Naypyidaw, damaging the building and forcing people to flee to the roads in the adjacent Thailand.
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A video obtained by ABC News from the Wework office in Bangkok shows the water flowing from the roof pool when people run across the office to the exit.
Two main public transportation systems of Bangkok, BTS – railroad railroad tracks – and MRT, which are mostly underground, have stopped services when the authorities responded after the earthquake, Thailand police said.
Meanwhile, the ruling Junta in Myanmar has stated an emergency in six regions – Sagaing, Mandalay, Magway, Northeastern Shan State, Nay Pyi Taw and Bago – after the earthquake hit the country, followed by a series of earthquakes.
Myanmar fell in a civil war for many years, and Mandalay is one of the big cities than that is still controlled by Junta.
This is a developing story. Please check again for updates.
ABC News’ Morgan Winsor, Joe Simonetti, Karson Yiu and Helena Skinner contributed to this report.