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Updates on Sagaing Earthquake – 2^nd May 2025

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Early Recovery Cluster Webpage on MIMU

The Early Recovery (ER) Cluster was activated swiftly following the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar on 28 March 2025.

Early Recovery is a strategic approach that integrates humanitarian response with long term recovery and development efforts. By applying development principles in crisis settings, it helps stabilize communities, restore essential services, and rebuild livelihoods. This ensures humanitarian action leads to sustainable recovery and greater resilience, enabling crisis affected populations to regain self reliance quickly.

Early Recovery coordination brings together humanitarian and development actors to deliver a coherent, principled emergency response, enhancing effectiveness through stronger predictability, accountability, and partnerships.

Cluster resources will be collected and featured on a newly launched Early Recovery Cluster webpage on the MIMU website.

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Satellite-detected Damage in part of Monywa Township

The latest map from the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) assess probable damage buildings focusing on a part of Monywa Township, where damage was detected using a WorldView-2 very high-resolution satellite image acquired on April 25, 2025.

UNOSAT identified 27 damaged structures and 170 potentially damaged.

This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field. Ground verification is encouraged, and feedback can be sent to the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT).

Guidance on Emergency Shelter and NFI Earthquake Response

The Northwest Shelter/NFI Technical Working Group (TWG) in consultation with cluster members has collaboratively developed a Guidance Note on Emergency Shelter and Non-Food Items (NFI) Assistance. This aims to provide recommendations from the Northwest Shelter/NFI/CCCM Cluster regarding the provision of emergency shelter and NFI support to populations affected by the earthquake.

It outlines various assistance modalities that can be adapted according to the evolving situation on the ground and the specific needs of the affected communities.

This is a living document and will be revised and updated as necessary in response to changing conditions and new information.

Download the document from MIMU website.

Explore the Shelter/NFI/CCCM Cluster web page on MIMU.

Untimely Rainfall Hindering Response / Recovery Efforts

With the monsoon season coming very soon, we have been seeing reports of rain and wind hampering response operations. At Inle Lake on 27 April, severe winds tore through Kyartaw Village near Nangpang, ripping off damaged roofs of earthquake affected homes and flattening makeshift shelters. Patheingyi Township in Mandalay Region includes seven villages on islands in the Irrawaddy River between Mandalay and Sagaing towns which reportedly faces flooding during the rainy season. The rain is also worsening road conditions, and travelling will be increasingly difficult.

An untimely rainfall warning has been issued until 4 May: rain or thundershowers are likely to be fairly widespread to widespread across the country with the likelihood of regional and isolated heavy falls.

Data from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and other tools can be used to obtain short and medium term weather forecasts.