Myanmar struck by 7.0 magnitude earthquake - USGS

Myanmar struck by 7.0 magnitude earthquake - USGS

An convulsion with a consequence of 6.9 addled northwestern Myanmar on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, sending able tremors through Myanmar, eastern India, Bangladesh and locations of Nepal.

There were no actual letters of above accident or accident of activity as a aftereffect of the tremor, amid about 100 km (62 miles) north-northwest of the city-limits of Monywa at an estimated abyss of 134 km.

But about 50 humans suffered mainly leg injuries in the Bangladeshi basic Dhaka and northeastern city-limits of Sylhet as they fled homes and added barrio during the quake, according to police.

Witnesses in Bagan, axial Myanmar, said some tourists larboard their auberge apartment and stood alfresco if they acquainted the tremor. They saw no assurance of accident to buildings, however.

"We haven't heard any letters of casualties or damage," said an official from Myanmar's meteorological administration based in the basic Naypyitaw. "So far as I apperceive the epicenter wasn't in a densely busy area."

Electricity was cut off in locations of northeastern India as thermal ability stations were shut down as a basic measure.

"I acquainted the agitation three times. I saw humans hasty out," said Rupak De Chowdhuri, a Reuters columnist in the eastern Indian city-limits of Kolkata.

Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who were visiting the northeastern Indian accompaniment of Assam on Wednesday, were safe, the British High Commission in New Delhi said.

Tremors were aswell acquainted in eastern Nepal.

"We acquainted the quake. But it was not so able to accomplish us abscond our homes," said Dinesh Rai, a citizen of Nepal's eastern accompaniment of Jhapa.

In March, 2011, at atomic 74 humans were dead in an convulsion in Myanmar abreast its borders with Thailand and Laos.

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