Earthquakes
Athitaya was on the second day of a new job. Her teammates made it out. She has not
Athitaya and her colleagues were about to begin work on the seventh floor of a Bangkok tower when their leader snapped this picture. Then an earthquake struck.
- Zach Hope
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Survival against the odds gives rescuers glimmer of hope after earthquake
Some survivors filmed their ordeal as they waited to be rescued, trapped in tiny pockets of air between slabs of broken concrete.
Kanittha can barely imagine returning to the office. It’s on the 29th floor
Friday’s earthquake emptied Bangkok into the streets and now darkens routines that involve living and working dozens of storeys above ground.
- Damien Cave, Muktita Suhartono and Richard C. Paddock
China and Russia already have boots on the ground in Myanmar. The US is nowhere to be seen
The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has so far sent nothing to the earthquake disaster zone.
- Hannah Beech and Edward Wong
A ‘signal’ is picked up in the rubble and the call goes out for quiet
It is three days almost to the moment since the under-construction office tower collapsed in Bangkok. But miracles can happen, and the staging area is buzzing.
- Zach Hope and Veena Thoopkrajae
Town waiting for answers after 10 of its men go missing in Bangkok tower collapse
Aye and her brother are holding vigil beside a four-storey mound of rubble in Thailand, hoping to get news for worried families in their home town 1000 kilometres away.
- Zach Hope and Veena Thoopkrajae
Even as the earthquake death toll rose in Myanmar, the junta’s bombs kept falling
The Myanmar military kept dropping bombs on its own country even after Friday’s earthquake left at least 1600 people dead. The fate of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi is unknown.
- Michael Ruffles and Lucy Macken
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Earthquake death toll in Myanmar jumps to more than 1600
The powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand on Friday, destroying buildings, a bridge and a dam.
- David Rising and Jintamas Saksornchai
Rescuers tread lightly to find survivors they know are still breathing
Although the violence of the Bangkok building collapse in the massive earthquake is sapping hope that the rest of the missing will be found alive, not all is lost.
- Zach Hope
Earthquake turns Myanmar’s shiny capital city to dust
Now the brilliant white streets and eight-lane roads of the capital Naypyitaw are veined with gaping splits and cracks, its prized airport in ruins.
- Verity Bowman, Sarah Newey and Nandi Theint
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