It's highly likely that the death toll will increase because accessing many of the villages in Myanmar will take time due to basic conditions. Fortunately it was far inland so it did not trigger yet another tsunami. On land, the damage to buildings has been limited with the exception of a few temples in northern Thailand.
At least 50 people have been killed and 40 injured after a strong earthquake struck northeastern Myanmar near its border with Thailand, officials said.
"Total death toll has now reached nearly 50 and the number of the injured is about 40 while over 100 buildings were destroyed," a government official, based in the town of Tachilek, told the Reuters news agency on Friday.
The 6.8-magnitude quake shook buildings as far away as the Thai capital Bangkok, almost 800km from the epicentre, on Thursday night.
