July 30, 2025
MANDALAY – According to Mandalay residents, aftershocks are occurring in and around Mandalay following the powerful earthquake.
“There are more and more people who are a little nervous. I don’t even feel nervous. Now, if not every day, people are in a state of shock because they are shaking every other day. Today, there was a shock. Yesterday, there was a shock,” said a Mandalay resident.
According to the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, an aftershock measuring 3.2 on the Richter scale struck about three miles northeast of Mandalay at a depth of 19 kilometers.
In addition, at 10:01 a.m. on July 28, the full moon day of the first major earthquake, an aftershock occurred, centered about 1 mile south of Maha Aung Myay Township, Mandalay Region, at a depth of 33 kilometers.
According to the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, there were 215 aftershocks in the four months following the powerful earthquake.
In July alone, 19 aftershocks occurred, including one magnitude 5.5 and five magnitudes 4 and above, according to the Meteorological Department.