Today, a tragic event occurred in Myanmar. Today was a working day, so I was eating lunch at the office when I felt a strong tremor. I had experienced earthquakes before, but this time it lasted for three to five minutes. People in the office also ran outside. I thought something was going to happen. After a while, news started to appear on social media. The first news I saw was the collapse of the nearly 100-year-old Ayeyarwady River Bridge. Then came the collapse of the Maha Myat Muni Pagoda. News of the devastation in Mandalay began to appear one after another. The 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Mandalay. The earthquake was so powerful that it caused a high-rise building to collapse in Bangkok, more than a thousand kilometers away. It was a bad omen for Mandalay, the epicenter of the earthquake, and the surrounding areas.
