- A strong earthquake of 7.7 M at a depth of 10 km occurred on 28 March at 06.20 UTC (12.50 local time) in Sagaing Region, central Myanmar. The epicentre was located about 16 km north-north-west of Sagaing city, and 19 km north-west of Mandalay city. An aftershock of 6.4 M at a depth of 10 km occurred in the same area at 06.32 UTC. Sagaing is home to 1.3 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) – a third of all IDPs in Myanmar.
- USGS PAGER estimates that up to 7,000 people were exposed to violent shaking, up to 2,866,000 people to severe shaking, and up to 10,190,000 exposed to strong and very strong shaking.
- According to media reports, several buildings collapsed in Mandalay city, and buckling roads have been observed in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar. The earthquake was felt in Bangkok and Chiang Mai cities in Thailand, where people have been evacuated from buildings, and in Yunnan and Shaanxi provinces in China. Aftershocks are continuing to be felt across the country.
- Myanmar has the fifth highest number of people in need of humanitarian assistance globally – 20 million, or about a third of the country.
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