He said that disaster relief material, humanitarian assistance, and search and rescue teams are being expeditiously dispatched to the affected areas as part of Operation Brahma.
"The situation is fine now, but yesterday it was very bad, where we went out in the market as well but they had closed it due to the emergency, we could go to market. We had a lot of trouble there, then we could not get any taxi at that time. Even emergency vehicles were not found. Before
The first tranche of 15 tonnes of relief material, including tents, blankets, sleeping bags, food packets, hygiene kits, generators, and essential medicines, landed in Yangon on Saturday.
The death toll from the earthquake that struck central Myanmar could exceed 10,000, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimated according to their early modeling on Friday.
Under contruction building collapsed in front of JJ Mall in Chatuchak market in Thailand's capital, Bangkok, as an earthquake of 7.7 magnitude, which occurred in Myanmar's Mandalay, was felt across Thailand, China and Vietnam.
"Geographically we are at risk due to being surrounded by three lands with tectonic activities with the boundary of Bangladesh, it is about 100-150 kilometres. Even in north we have the Eurasian plate in Nepal, and we are standing in Indo-Australian plate, and on our eastern side in Myanm
Indians prefer Thailand as one of the best holiday destinations and visit the place in huge numbers. However, as soon as the deadly effects of the quake were felt in the country, they started to return to India.
According to NCS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 180 kilometers. The NCS said the earthquake was recorded at Latitude 36.50 N and Longitude 71.12 E.
An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 on the Richter Scale jolted Myanmar on Friday at 11:56 pm (local time), according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS).