YANGON, Myanmar

A powerful earthquake struck northeastern Myanmar on Thursday night, killing one woman and shaking buildings as far away as Bangkok. No tsunami was generated.Homes and at least one bridge were damaged in several villages along Myanmar's borders with Thailand and Laos, according to residents who spoke to an aid agency.

There were also reports of minor damage in northern Thailand, where a woman died when a brick wall collapsed on her, police Capt. Weerapon Samranjai said. Cracks spread in the foundations of some buildings in the province surrounding the city of Chiang Rai, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) from the epicenter. The spires fell off two pagodas.

The tremor was so strong, and things fell down from the shelves. It was very scary, and we all ran out to the streets," said a 25-year old woman who runs a mini-mart in Tachileik, a Myanmar town near the border. As is common in the country, she spoke on condition of anonymity because authorities discourage talking to the media.

It was difficult to get a comprehensive picture of damage in the country's remote northeast, where communications, even at the best of time, are sketchy. The military-run government also tightly controls information.

The hilly region could see landslides of rock and mud shaken loose in the quake, said Jenny MacIntyre, a communications manager with World Vision, who spoke with representatives from the aid agency who were near the epicenter in Myanmar.

The 6.8-magnitude quake was just six miles (10 kilometers) deep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. At that strength and depth, it said 600,000 people could feel shaking anywhere from strong to violent. It added that since buildings in the area are considered vulnerable, damage could be widespread.

Buildings swayed hundreds of miles (kilometers) away, including in the Thai capital, Hanoi, Vietnam, and the Myanmar city of Mandalay.

"People living in high-rise buildings felt the tremor, and we are still on the streets. We are afraid to go back into the house," said a 34-year-old woman from Mandalay, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.

Max Jones, an Australian resident of Bangkok, was in his 27th-floor apartment when his building started shaking so hard he had to grab the walls to keep from falling.

"It was bloody scary, I can tell you," he said. Jones said he could see people running in the streets.

The quake was followed by two smaller aftershocks, 4.8 and 5.4 in magnitude.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the quake was located too far inland to create a destructive wave.

Source:csmonitor.com

JAPAN confronted devastation along its northerneaster coast on saturday..with fire raging and part of cities under water after a massive a earthquake and tsunami that likely killed at lwaet 1.000 people.
Daybreak was expected to reveal the full extent of the death and damage from friday 8.9 magnitude earthquake and 10 meter high tsunami it sent surging into cities and villages,sweeping away everything.

one of the worst residential areas,people burried under rubble could be heard calling out "help and when we going to be rescued"  the goverment warned that there could be a small radiation leak from nuclear reactor whose cooling knocked out by quake.Nato kan ordered an evacuation around the plant be expanded 10 km  from 3 km.some 3.00 people had earlier been moved out of harms aways.
the unfoldin natural disaster promted offers of search and the rescue help from 45 countries.china said said they are ready to help with the quake relief.while president obama told japan prime minister Naoto kan the united states would assist in anyway.

HOW TO HELP :

AMERICAN RED CROSS: emergency operation centers are opened in the affected areas and staffed by the chapters ,this disaster is on scale larger than the japan red crosscan typically manage.donations to the american red cross can be allocated for the international disaster relief fund.which the deploys to the region to help.

GLOBALGIVING:established a fund to disburse donations to organizations providing relief and emergency service to victims of the earthquake and tsunami.

SAVE THE CHILDREN: Mobilizing to provide immediate humanitarian relief in the shape of emergency health care and provision of non food item and shelter.

SALVATION ARMY: The salvation army has been in japan since 1895 and is currently providing emergency assistance to those in need.

AMERICARES:Emergency team is on full alert.mobilizing resources and dispatching an emergency response manager to the region.

CONVOY OF HOPE:Disaster response team established connection with in the country partners who have been impacted by the damage and identifying the needs of areas where convoy of hope may be of the greates assistance.

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS:putting together relief teams,as well as supplies and are in contact with the partners in japan and other affected countries to assess needs and coordinate our activities.

SHELTER BOX: The first team is mobilizing to the head to japan and begin the responce effort.

The only  help  we can lend to japan as a citizen is if we could spare money and foods or anything that might be usefull as a donation,we can contact NGO's and LGU's or any organization in our area..and for those  who cant able to lend a hand ,lets give our prayers to the people and goverment of japan.

Houses are in flames while the natori river floods the sorrounding are by tsunami tidal waves in Natori city..

  GOD BLESS JAPAN OUR PRAYERS IS WITH YOU