Powerful 6.8-magnitude quake strikes Myanmar, tremors felt in Bangladesh, India and Thailand

‘An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale has hit north-central Myanmar, the US Geological Survey says, with tremors felt in neighboring Bangladesh, India and Thailand as well.
The quake, whose epicenter was about 145 kilometers (90 miles) west of the city of Meiktila, and relatively deep at 84 kilometers (52 miles), struck Chauk, a town on the Irrawaddy river region several hundred kilometers northwest of Myanmar’s capital of Naypyidaw, on Wednesday.
The USGS noted that many buildings in the region were “highly vulnerable” to earthquake shaking but added that the impact would be “relatively localized.”’
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