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On Friday afternoon, Esther J was in her apartment in Bangkok in Thailand when the tremors started. I feel dizzy and I think, oh, I'm going to be collapsed. What happened to me?

Maybe I have some food poison or something like that.

But within 20 seconds, we understand that it is the aquit and we just ran out outside.

It took around four to five minutes that the aqua shake, and then it stopped.

And then it shook again.

It is the most severe aquit I have experienced in my life.

Esther was more than 600 miles away from where the earthquake had struck in central Myanmar.

According to the Red Cross, this is the most devastating earthquake to hit Asia in more than a century.

Esther's from Myanmar, and she worked there as a journalist until the military regime

forced her and most other reporters out.

The apartment I used to live before the coup was already raped by the military.

And also, my bank account was free and it's not safe for me to go inside Myanmar.

The place where I live is very far from the epicenter and so you can imagine how it will be devastating for those who live near the epicentre.

At the moment, we know that more than 3,000 people have died and almost 5,000 have been injured.

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