As U.S. experts head to Myanmar to assist in recovery from the Southeast Asia earthquake, teams from China are filling the void.

The 7.7 magnitude quake hit Friday, with the epicenter near Myanmar’s second-largest city of Mandalay. It damaged the city’s airport, buckled roads, and collapsed hundreds of buildings along a wide swath down the country’s center.

A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday, with a building collapsing more than 600 miles away in Thailand. A high-rise building under construction in Thai capital Bangkok collapsed,

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The U.S. Agency for International Development will send some teams to Thailand to help with recovery efforts following an earthquake that hit southeast Asia, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.

The US has announced $2 million in support to aid organizations on the ground in Myanmar, where the earthquake death toll has surpassed 2,000.

While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act.

The magnitude 7.7 quake Friday rocked an impoverished Southeast Asian nation already beleaguered by years of civil war.