On Friday at 12.50pm local time, a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit southeast Asia near Mandalay, Myanmar’s second biggest city.

Geologists believe a strike-slip fault, where one tectonic plate plunges beneath another, between the Indian and Sunda plates along the Sagaing Fault caused the incident.

The tremor was about 10km deep, according to the US Geological Survey (USGA), and an aftershock of 6.4 magnitude arrived minutes later. The earthquake that killed more than 55,000 in Turkey and Syria in 2023 was rated 7.8 and 10km deep.

On Friday tremors were felt in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, more than a thousand kilometres away. Apartment buildings shook with the impact — some spewing water from rooftop swimming pools:

Damage was also reported across the border with China in the