Myanmar's junta declared a week of national mourning on Friday after a powerful earthquake killed more than 1,700 people in the former Burma and neighboring Thailand.
The mourning period will last until Sunday, the ruling military said in a statement, adding that flags will be flown at half-mast.
On Friday, Myanmar authorities asked for help from the international community, an appeal considered exceptional given the scale of the human and material damage and the political isolation of the ruling junta.
A team of 37 Chinese rescuers arrived in Myanmar on Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
The European Union announced on Friday 2.5 million euros in aid to the country and mobilized its satellite observation program to help aid earthquake victims.
Also on Friday, several international organizations announced the availability of aid, including the United Nations, the World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders and the United States.
The earthquake struck at 12:50 p.m. (06:20 a.m. in Lisbon) at a depth of 10 kilometers (km), with its epicenter located about 17 km from Mandalay, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), which measures seismic activity around the world.
Mandalay is the second largest city in Myanmar, with 1.2 million inhabitants, and is 270 km north of the capital, Naypyidaw.
In Bangkok, Thailand, about a thousand kilometers away, 10 deaths and 100 missing have been recorded so far.
The earthquake was also felt in several cities in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan, although so far the damage reported has been minor.
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