A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Southeast Asia early Monday morning, plunging entire communities into chaos and uncertainty. The tremor, which shook the region awake at exactly 3:42 a.m. local time, originated in a rugged, mountainous stretch along the border between China’s Yunnan Province and neighboring Myanmar. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the quake struck at a shallow depth of approximately 10 kilometers—an unsettling detail that made the shaking even more intense and destructive across a wide radius. The impact was felt in multiple countries, but most severely across southern China, northern Thailand, and large parts of…
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