Southeast Asia was hit with two powerful earthquakes on Friday and these Deadly Earthquakes Spark Global Concern. Earthquake measuring 7.7-magnitude on the Richter’s scale struck Mandalay in Myanmar on Friday. The tremors of the quake were felt as far as Bangkok and the northern city of Chiang Mai. 12 minutes later a second quake, with a magnitude of 6.4, shook the area. The violent tremors caused buildings in the Thai capital Bangkok to sway which led to evacuations across the city, and in Myanmar. According to preliminary reports the U.S. Geological Survey and Germany’s GFZ center for geosciences said the midday earthquake was a shallow 10 kilometers, and the epicenter was in Myanmar.