A strong earthquake struck near Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, on Friday, damaging or collapsing bridges and buildings across a swath of Southeast Asia, killing at least 20 people in Myanmar and injuring hundreds of others.
The 7.7-magnitude quake struck just before 1 p.m. local time, and a strong, 6.4-magnitude aftershock followed 11 minutes later. The shaking was felt in southern China and Vietnam and as far away as Bangkok, Thailand’s capital, where a 30-story skyscraper under construction collapsed, killing at least three people.
Details of casualties and damage in Myanmar, which has been ravaged by a four-year-long civil war, were not immediately clear. In Bangkok, people flooded into the streets out of fear of aftershocks, traffic was at a standstill, and videos captured water surging from the rooftop pools of hotels and residential towers.
People who evacuated from a nearby hospital wait near a collapsed building in Mandalay.
The collapsed Ava Bridge near Mandalay.
An earthquake survivor waiting for care at a hospital in Naypyidaw.
Damage along a road in Naypyidaw.
A medical officer surrounded by the injured outside a hospital in Naypyidaw.
Destroyed pagodas in Naypyidaw.
The compound of a hospital in Naypyidaw.
Rescue teams at a construction site where a building collapsed in Bangkok.
The moment when a 30-story skyscraper that was under construction collapsed in Bangkok, killing at least three people.
People evacuated buildings in Bangkok, and were told not to return inside or feared doing so.
An injured man is rescued at a construction site in Bangkok where a building collapsed.
People gathering on a street in Bangkok after the earthquake.
Dust covering the street after a building under construction collapsed in the Chatuchak area of Bangkok.
