A strong earthquake registered by the USGS as M5.9 struck Myanmar at 15:34 UTC (22:04 LT) on February 3, 2026. The agency is reporting a depth of 62.7 km (39 miles). EMSC is reporting M5.9 at a depth of 55 km (34 miles). The USGS issued a Green alert for shaking-related fatalities and economic losses.
Around 71 percent of wells in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Delta exceed World Health Organization (WHO) safe drinking water limits, placing up to 12 million people at risk of long-term arsenic exposure, a new study led by the University of Portsmouth finds. Travelers and residents relying on untreated well water may be exposed if they consume or use it for cooking.
A study published on August 11, 2025, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzes the Mw7.7 Mandalay earthquake of March 28, 2025, revealing that the Sagaing Fault in Myanmar is capable of unusually long supershear ruptures and irregular recurrence patterns.
Severe flooding triggered by intense monsoon rains in late July 2025 has killed at least 10 people, left 12 missing, and injured 77 across Myanmar, affecting more than 131 000 people and displacing over 18 000 as of August 6, 2025.
Newly surfaced security camera footage from the March 28, 2025, M7.7 earthquake near Mandalay, Myanmar, shows a rare surface rupture along the Sagaing Fault. The footage captures the ground visibly splitting and shifting laterally, offering a very rare, ground-level view of a strike-slip fault in motion.
An M7.7 earthquake struck near Mandalay, Myanmar, on March 28, 2025, killing more than 5 000 people and injuring at least 11 400. The shallow, high-magnitude event ruptured a long section of the Sagaing Fault, prompting seismologists to investigate its complex rupture dynamics and evidence of supershear propagation.
The deadliest earthquake in 95 years hit Myanmar on Friday, March 28, 2025, leaving over 4 390 fatalities and injuring over 5 000 people in the country. The M7.7 quake was powerful enough to send tremors as far as Thailand, where at least 18 people lost their lives, 68 were injured, and about 80 remain missing. The impact was made worse when an M6.7 aftershock hit the same region just minutes later.
A powerful earthquake registered by the USGS as M7.7 hit Myanmar at 06:20 UTC (12:50 LT) on March 28, 2025. The agency is reporting a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles). EMSC is reporting the same magnitude and depth, while the Thai Meteorological Department put the magnitude at 8.2. The quake was followed by a strong aftershock measuring M6.7 just 12 minutes later.
A jade mining pond collapsed in Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar, engulfing more than 50 homes and claiming at least 12 lives on January 13, 2025. Over 100 people remain unaccounted for.
Food insecurity in 16 global regions, spanning 14 countries and two regional clusters, is expected to intensify from November 2024 through May 2025, according to a recent UN report.
