Myanmar Update

Summary

• More than 17.2 million people in the earthquake affected areas are in need of drinking water, food, health care, and shelter.

BANGKOK (AP) — Long-shot efforts to find survivors from Myanmar’s devastating March 28 earthquake were winding down Monday, as rescue efforts were supplanted by increasing relief and recovery activity. The death toll surpassed 3,600 and was still climbing.

A situation report issued late Monday by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, said more than 17.2 million people are living in affected areas, and urgently need food, drinking water, health care, cash assistance and emergency shelter.

Source: Rescue efforts from Myanmar's deadly earthquake wind down as death toll hits 3,600 | AP News   

Summary

• Death toll rises to 3,003 from Myanmar earthquake

• Weather officials warn of unseasonal rain that could complicate rescue, relief efforts

New challenges face rescue and aid workers trying to reach people in a country experiencing civil war. "Last Friday's 7.7-magnitude quake, one of the Southeast Asian nation's strongest in a century, jolted a region home to 28 million, toppling buildings, flattening communities and leaving many without food, water and shelter."

"Deaths rose to 3,003 on Wednesday, with 4,515 injured and 351 missing."

Source: Myanmar earthquake toll crosses 3,000; forecast rains pose new threat for rescuers | Reuters 

March 31, 2025

Summary

• China says rescuers pull four survivors from Mandalay rubble

• Thai efforts focus on collapsed Bangkok skyscraper, 75 missing

• Death toll 2,065 in Myanmar, 19 confirmed dead in Thailand

• Myanmar's civil war complicates quake relief efforts

• Rebel group says military still conducting airstrikes

Source: Search for quake survivors intensifies in Myanmar, Thailand; death toll exceeds 2,000 | Reuters  

March 29, 2025

• A powerful 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar killing over 1,600 people making an already difficult situation for 1.5 million people displaced due to war dire. 

• United States organizations think deaths could be in the thousands according to Reuters World News. 

Source: Myanmar quake death toll passes 1,600, as junta lets in foreign rescuers | Reuters