[h=1]Rescue teams seek survivors after 6.2 quake strikes Amatrice.[/h]
A minute’s silence will be observed across all leagues.
Not a word about this story on MSNBC,CNN or Fox News......They rather talk negative Trump then give this story some air time.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...l-earthquake-shakes-central-myanmar/89248520/
A powerful magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck central Myanmar on Wednesday, killing at least three people and damaging buildings and ancient monuments, authorities said.
The quake's epicenter was located in an area west of the ancient capital Bagan and took place about 52 miles below the Earth's surface, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Deep quakes typically cause less damage than shallow ones.
The quake came on the same day that another measuring magnitude-6.2 struck central Italy, killing scores of people.
Tremors from the Myanmar quake were felt as far away as India and Thailand.
Bagan is home to 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries. Dozens of ancient structures were damaged, authorities said.
A fire department official from regional capital Magwe told Reuters that two young girls were killed when a riverbank gave way in Yenanchaung township. Another person died when a tobacco processing factory collapsed in the town of Pakkoku, officials told the news agency.
"My house shook during the quake. Many people were scared and they ran out of the buildings," Maung Maung Kyaw, a local official of the ruling National League for Democracy, told Reuters. "Some of the old buildings have cracks. The biggest damage is to the bank building in the town. The damage to other buildings isn't that significant."
A powerful magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck central Myanmar on Wednesday, killing at least three people and damaging buildings and ancient monuments, authorities said.
The quake's epicenter was located in an area west of the ancient capital Bagan and took place about 52 miles below the Earth's surface, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Deep quakes typically cause less damage than shallow ones.
The quake came on the same day that another measuring magnitude-6.2 struck central Italy, killing scores of people.
Tremors from the Myanmar quake were felt as far away as India and Thailand.
Bagan is home to 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries. Dozens of ancient structures were damaged, authorities said.
A fire department official from regional capital Magwe told Reuters that two young girls were killed when a riverbank gave way in Yenanchaung township. Another person died when a tobacco processing factory collapsed in the town of Pakkoku, officials told the news agency.
"My house shook during the quake. Many people were scared and they ran out of the buildings," Maung Maung Kyaw, a local official of the ruling National League for Democracy, told Reuters. "Some of the old buildings have cracks. The biggest damage is to the bank building in the town. The damage to other buildings isn't that significant."
The big media outlets here in the states will show you what's going on in politics 24/7, but won't show you the craziness of what's going on around the world.......unless you read about the refugee crisis online, you won't know WTF is going on in Europe with that problem........that's why I get my info online, or watch European news channels on satellite, they show everything that's going on around the world.
Thank you TCG.....Prays for Myanmar!
You got that right.....Social media has become my source for news.
Have a good day TCG!
Official death toll rises to 78, expected to go higher.
