Magnitude-7.7 earthquake rocks Myanmar, with tremors felt across neighboring Thailand

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This is CNN breaking news
and you are watching CNN newsroom,
I'm Rahel Solomon,
where we are following
breaking news this hour.
A major 7.7 magnitude
earthquake has rocked
Myanmar and Thailand.
Officials in Bangkok
say that one person is dead.
50 others are hurt
in a collapsed building in the capital
and the prime minister there
declaring the capital city
an emergency zone.
CNN photojournalist Mark
Phillips in Bangkok
says that the tremors were violent.
A resident of the city shot this video
and you can see
water splashing out of a rooftop pool
there on the high rise
apartment building next door.
The USGS says that the quake
had a depth of ten kilometers
or six miles.
A large
aftershock of 6.4
magnitude happened about 12 miles
after the initial quake.
Let's bring in CNN's
Hanako Montgomery,
who joins us live this hour
in Osaka, Japan.
Hinako, give us a sense of
what's the latest you're hearing?
What what are you learning?
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