Centuries of history and culture reduced to rubble after Myanmar earthquake

Samaritan's Purse Dispatches Field Hospital to Myanmar Following Catastrophic Earthquake

The North Carolina-based evangelical humanitarian aid charity Samaritan's Purse is dispatching an emergency field hospital to Myanmar following a catastrophic 7.7-magnitude earthquake. The DC-8 aircraft, which departed from Greensboro, North Carolina, on Monday, traveled to Calgary to load the field hospital from Samaritan's Purse's Canada office.

Centuries of history and culture reduced to rubble after Myanmar earthquake

Myanmar's religious temples stood as symbols of faith and history. After the recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake, many are wondering: will they ever rise again or are they lost forever?

Visualizing the History of Earthquakes in Myanmar

Reuters has created a visualization using data from the United States Geological Survey to illustrate the long history of powerful earthquakes along Myanmar’s Sagaing Fault. It shows all magnitude 6+ quakes since 1900 as orange circles, scaled by strength, and marks the recent March 28 magnitude 7.7 quake in brown. By layering past and present seismic activity over fault lines, the map makes clear how densely clustered and persistent strong eart…