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A deadly earthquake on March 28 collapsed buildings in central Myanmar but rumours that the country's most sacred Buddhist site has crumbled are inaccurate. An AFP reporter confirmed the Shwedagon ...
The top of Myanmar's Shwe Sar Yan Pagoda, to the south-east of Mandalay, has collapsed following a huge earthquake. Onlookers can be heard screaming and shouting as part of the building crashed to ...
The massive earthquake on March 28 razed centuries of Myanmar’s sacred history, including the all-white Nagayon Pagoda in ...
The magnitude-7.7 tremor razed Nagayon Pagoda in the central city of Mandalay, Myanmar's last royal capital where ancient heritage was decimated in the disaster which claimed more than 3,700 lives.
(Read about what causes earthquakes.) A photographer captured this damaged pagoda on April 2, 2025 in the ancient city of Ava, Myanmar. Pagodas serve as Buddhist temples and sacred buildings ...
"Shwedagon Pagoda, the treasured pagoda in Myanmar, was seriously damaged. #Shwedagon #EarthquakeinMyanmar," reads a Thai-language Facebook post circulating in Thailand on March 28, 2025.
When a massive earthquake hit Myanmar last month, centuries of sacred history tumbled down -- towering Buddha idols, ...
MANDALAY: When a massive earthquake hit Myanmar last month, centuries of sacred history tumbled down -- towering Buddha idols, sky-scraping stupas and the pure-white pagoda where 83-year-old Khin ...