{"id":112819,"date":"2025-04-01T08:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/myanmar-observes-minute-of-silence-to-mourn-earthquake-dead\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T08:03:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:03:55","slug":"myanmar-observes-minute-of-silence-to-mourn-earthquake-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/myanmar-observes-minute-of-silence-to-mourn-earthquake-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar observes minute of silence to mourn earthquake dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MYANMAR, Apr 1 (BBC) \u2014Myanmar has fallen silent for one minute to mourn those who died from Friday\u2019s powerful earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s military leaders asked earlier this week that the country come to a standstill at 12:51 local time (or 09:21 Kenya GMT) \u2013 which is the exact time that the deadly quake struck on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2,000 people in Myanmar have been killed following a magnitude 7.7 earthquake that affected areas as far as Thailand and China<\/p>\n<p>In neighbouring Thailand, 20 people are known to have died, and thousands have been evacuated from cracked buildings in Bangkok<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers in both countries are still continuing their search for survivors, though hopes are fading as the critical window \u2013 the first 72 hours after a quake \u2013 has passed<\/p>\n<p>The UN says the earthquake has compounded \u201can already dire crisis\u201d in Myanmar, which is in the midst of a four-year civil war. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the destruction, reports suggest the country\u2019s military leaders are still carrying out air strikes against pro-democracy rebel groups<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MYANMAR, Apr 1 (BBC) \u2014Myanmar has fallen silent for one minute to mourn those who died from Friday\u2019s powerful earthquake. The country\u2019s military leaders asked earlier this week that the country come to a standstill at 12:51 local time (or 09:21 Kenya GMT) \u2013 which is the exact time that the deadly quake struck on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}