Fig. 1 presents fragments of records obtained from digital stations Chiang Mai (∆ 4.2º), Pallekele (∆ 20.6º), Ala-Archa (∆ 27.4º), Jazator (∆ 28.6º), Jizzakh (∆ 30.1º). Fig. 2 presents fragments of records obtained from digital stations Talaya (∆ 30.4º), Kurchatov (∆ 31.9º), Kuldur (∆ 39.4º), Arti (∆ 44.2º), Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (∆ 45.2º).

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GS RAS registered eight aftershocks with magnitude M>=4.3 within 11 hours after the main shock.

According to TASS the number of victims in Myanmar has reached 3,600, with another 4,840 injured. In Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, 44 people died as a result of a building collapse. In Myanmar, a bridge over the Irrawaddy River, more than 1 km long, which connects the suburbs of Mandalay with the city of Sagaing, has collapsed. A historical palace and other buildings in the city of Mandalay were partially destroyed (Fig. 1). In Myanmar, power lines and an oil pipeline were damaged by the earthquake. In Bangkok, a building under construction collapsed due to the earthquake, and residents of multi-story buildings were evacuated. After the earthquake, the Thai aviation regulator banned all airports in the country from operating flights. The earthquake caused damage and partial destruction of more than 800 houses in the Chinese border city of Ruili. The earthquake was felt in China, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Laos and Vietnam.
Aircraft Il-76 of the Russian Emergencies Ministry (EMERCOM) with an airmobile hospital and an additional group of rescuers and doctors was sent to Myanmar. EMERCOM rescuers began work to eliminate the consequences of the earthquake in the city of Mandalay, Myanmar, which was most affected by the earthquake. Russian rescuers found and saved a woman from under the rubble, who had been lying under piles of concrete for more than two days. The victim was found under the rubble by search dogs from the canine unit of EMERCOM in the city of Mandalay. The work was carried out jointly with specialists from China; they made their way through the rubble to the victim for almost eight hours.
Fig. 2 was obtained from USGS NEIC, it presents USGS Community Internet Intensity Map made by 2184 responses in 207 cities.

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Focal mechanism solution of the origin was calculated by GS RAS with signs of initial arrivals of P waves at 106 stations, including 77 stations which registered compression waves (plus signs), and 29 stations which registered tensile waves (minus signs). The stations are located in the interval of epicentral distances 2.2-107.2º and in azimuth sector Az=0-357º. Focal mechanism solution in stereographic projection on the lower hemisphere and elements of the mechanism are presented in the table. The table also contains focal mechanism solutions obtained at the USGS NEIC with WW-phase Moment Tensor (Mww) technique and in Lamont-Dohert Earth Observatory of Columbia University, USA (LDEO GCMT) with СМТ (Centroid moment tensor) technique. Solutions from different centers are close. The earthquake was caused by similar compression stresses oriented SW (AZ=213-225º) and tensile stresses oriented NW (AZ=313-315º). One nodal plane NP1 strikes N (STK=352,353 и 1º), another NP2 – strikes E (STK=85º) according to GS RAS and LDEO GCMT and W (STK=270º) according to USGS NEIC. According to GS RAS and LDEO GCMT nodal plane NP1 is dipping more horizontally (DP=55-60º) if compared with NP2 (DP=85º), according to USGS NEIC both planes are dipping to the horizon rather steeply at close angles (DIP=82-84º). The type of motion along NP1 – right lateral slip, along NP2 – left lateral slip. The seismic moment was obtained in GS RAS from the spectrum of P waves registered at the station "Obninsk" (∆ 54.9º), it makes Mo=1.27*10**20 N*m, Mw=7.4. Seismic moment according to USGS NEIC makes Mo=4.634 *10**20 N*m, Mww=7.71. According to LDEO GCMT it makes Mo= 5.13*10**20 N*m, Mw=7.7.