In the grey stillness of early Monday morning, the earth roared.
A massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake ruptured beneath the borderlands of China and Myanmar, jolting millions from sleep and plunging whole towns into chaos.
The quake struck at a shallow depth, making the trembling all the more violent at the surface, and its epicentre lay in the rugged mountains between China’s Yunnan province and Myanmar’s northern Shan State. World Vision+2Wikipedia+2
In the border city of Ruili in Yunnan, China, windows shattered and walls cracked. One survivor described the moment: “It felt like the earth was breathing,” he said.
“Glass shattered everywhere. We ran outside without shoes.” Across the border, villagers in Shan State heard a sound they likened to thunder beneath the ground; then the world turned dark. Wikipedia
