Chinese scientists have warned of the risk of new earthquakes in Asia

Shortly before the earthquake in Myanmar, Chinese scientists published a study in which they stated an increased risk of severe earthquakes in China and neighboring regions. This was reported on April 6 by the South Chima Morning Post newspaper.

The article was published in the scientific journal Journal of Geodesy and Geodynamics on March 20. As part of the study, a team led by Zhu Hongbin, a senior engineer at the Beijing Seismological Agency, analyzed seismic data from China and other regions of Asia from 1879 to the present.

Scientists have identified six periods of high seismic activity in these territories, and now Asia may be entering a new similar period.

"Seismologists predicted that the March 28 earthquake [in Myanmar] would not be the last such incident. Their study shows that there is now an increased risk of catastrophic earthquakes in China and neighboring regions," the SCMP article says.

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On March 28, two earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 6.4 occurred in Myanmar. The epicenter of one of them was located 31 km northwest of the city of Mandalay. 3,564 people died in the natural disaster in the republic, and another 5,012 were injured.

The next day, on March 29, over 100 Russian rescuers arrived in Myanmar to provide assistance. So, in Mandalay, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, together with colleagues from China, pulled a woman who had been lying there for more than two days out from under the rubble.