Caption: UN-Habitat interviews a resident from an informal settlement where the earthquake caused further damage to already vulnerable structures Photo: © UN-Habitat Myanmar It has been 100 days since the devastating earthquake struck central Myanmar on 28 March 2025. A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar, leaving a trail of destruction across six regions ...

Photo caption: UN-Habitat engages with earthquake-affected communities in Mandalay, providing immediate humanitarian support and coordinating early recovery efforts. Photo: UN-Habitat “Out of 1,700 households in our ward, 1,400 were affected by the earthquake.” This is how Daw Aye Nyein Thu, a camp volunteer from Mandalay’s Chan Mya Tharzi Township, sums up the impact on her ...

Source: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) One month has passed since the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar on 28 March 2025, which was also felt in Thailand and southwest China. UN-Habitat and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) reiterate their condolences for the tragic loss ...

Photo caption: Daw Nu Yee lives with her family on the roadside, opposite their damaged rented home after the earthquake. They are waiting for a safe place to stay. “It’s because of my son-in-law that I’m still alive,” says Daw Nu Yee, a 56-year-old mother of two and grandmother of four, including little Min Chit ...

Photo caption: Earthquake-affected families rely on unclean and unreliable groundwater sources for survival. The lack of clean water has made daily life even more challenging in the aftermath of the disaster. Mandalay, Myanmar — April 13, 2025— “Without water, life stops. You can’t cook, you can’t clean, you can’t even bathe your children,” says Ma ...

Photo caption: UN-Habitat distributes food and nutrition supplies in Inle Township, Shan State, while conducting building damage assessments. The distribution provides essential support to communities affected by the earthquake, addressing their urgent needs during this critical time. MYANMAR—April 11, 2025—In response to the devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar on March 28, UN-Habitat is ...

Photo caption: UN-Habitat observes a building safety assessment at Mandalay General Hospital. MYANMAR—April 10, 2025— The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has rapidly launched an emergency response following the devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar on March 28th, 2025. In partnership with the Myanmar Engineering Society (MES), M-CAN, and other local stakeholders, the focus ...

Supporting Myanmar’s Earthquake Response: From Immediate Relief to Resilience Building The devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar on 28 March 2025 has left many people and communities in urgent need of assistance. As search and initial rescue efforts come to an end, the focus will shift from providing life-saving aid to laying the foundation ...

MYANMAR—April 3, 2025—A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on March 28, affecting approximately 7 million people and causing widespread devastation across the Mandalay and Sagaing regions. As of the latest report on April 3, 2025, over 3,700 people have died, 3,200 have been injured, 70 are missing, and 500 have been rescued. The earthquake ...

မတ် ၂၈ ရက်က စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး အလယ်ပိုင်းတွင် ရစ်ခ်ျတာစကေး ၇ ဒသမ ၇ အဆင့်ရှိ ငလျင်တစ်ခု လှုပ်ခတ်ခဲ့ရာ လူပေါင်း ၇ သန်းခန့် ထိခိုက်သေဆုံးပြီး ထိခိုက်ပျက်စီးမှုများ ဖြစ်ပေါ်ခဲ့သည်။ နောက်ဆုံးထုတ်ပြန်ချက်များအရ သေဆုံးသူ ၈၃၂ ဦးနှင့် ဒဏ်ရာရသူ အများအပြားရှိပြီး ဆေးရုံများ၊ လမ်းများနှင့် လေဆိပ်များကဲ့သို့ အရေးကြီးသော အခြေခံအဆောက်အအုံများ ပျက်စီးဆုံးရှုံးမှုများ ရှိကြောင်း အတည်ပြုထားသည်။ ပျက်စီးသွားသော အဆောက်အဦအများစုကို သစ်သား၊ သတ္တုနှင့် သွပ်ရည်စိမ်ထားသော သံပြားများဖြင့် တည်ဆောက်ထားသောကြောင့် ငလျင်ဒဏ်ခံနိုင်မှု၊ မြေပြိုမှုနှင့် မီးလောင်ကျွမ်းမှုကဲ့သို့သော နောက်ဆက်တွဲအန္တရာယ်များကို ခံနိုင်ရည်ရှိစေပါသည်။ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည် လက်ရှိတွင် ထိခိုက်ခံစားရသောဒေသများတွင် ဝန်ထမ်းများရှိပြီး ပျက်စီးဆုံးရှုံးမှုအကဲဖြတ်မှုများနှင့် အရေးပေါ်အမိုးအကာများ ညှိနှိုင်းဆောင်ရွက်ရာတွင် အကူအညီပေးရန် ၎င်းတို့၏ကျွမ်းကျင်မှုများဖြင့် ဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်။ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည် ...