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Image A monk killed in the earthquake is cremated at a cemetery in Mandalay.Credit...The New York Times Myanmar was already in a humanitarian crisis before the disaster, ravaged by a long civil war.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.95 struck the New Britain Region in Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.