Rescue efforts continue after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar, with tremors felt in Thailand, China and India. Images from the ground reveal collapsed buildings and human devastation in Myanmar’s second-largest city, Mandalay, and even as far as Thailand’s capital, Bangkok.

A major 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Myanmar, causing damage and casualties across the country and in neighbouring Thailand. The quake happened in central Myanmar at a depth of 6.2 miles just before 1pm local time (6:20 GMT),

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday, flattening skyscrapers and leaving more than 1,000 people dead from Myanmar to Thailand.

The horrifying 8.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar on Friday morning was felt across most of South-East Asia. The earthquake originated northwest of Sagaing, Myanmar, at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles), according to the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ).

A rescue team in Mandalay, the city closest to the earthquake's epicentre, tells the BBC they "are digging people out with our bare hands".

Rescuers are racing to reach survivors in Bangkok with 47 missing, as the death toll of Myanmar’s devastating earthquake rises

Buildings have collapsed and Bangkok declared ‘disaster area’, as rescuers race to find survivors with tens of thousands feared dead

A state of emergency has been declared in Myanmar after a powerful earthquake struck the country’s second-most populous city, Mandalay. Several aftershocks followed — one a 6.4-magnitude. The ...

In Thailand, Bangkok authorities reduced the death toll to 18. Some 26 people have been injured and 76 others are missing at sites including at a high-rise building which collapsed, authorities said.

Scientist Inna Birchenko began to cry as she described the smoldering protected forest in Thailand where she was collecting samples from local trees shrouded in wildfire smoke. "This beautiful, diverse community of trees and animals is being destroyed as you see it, as you watch it," she said.

Myanmar is one of the most prone areas to earthquakes in the world as it features among the high-risk regions on the Global Seismic Risk Map. Notably, Sagaing Fault is an important earthquake-prone fault in Myanmar.