A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar on Friday, causing extensive damage across a wide swath of one of the world’s poorest countries and prompting officials to warn that the initial death toll is

Myanmar's junta chief announced that the earthquake's death toll has risen to 144, with over 700 people injured, according to AFP.

Although the official number of dead stands at around 2,000, the military junta has a history of suppressing the scale of national disasters. Here in Thailand's capital Bangkok, meanwhile, dozens of construction workers remain buried under the rubble of a collapsed unfinished skyscraper.

Patrick Schwarzenegger and "The White Lotus" cast lead tributes for victims of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that devastated Thailand and Myanmar.