Over 60,000 people live in places temporarily displaced after the deadly earthquake in Myanmar, while millions of tons of rubble must be urgently removed, the UN said today.

“At least 2.5 million tonnes of rubble, or about 125,000 trucks, must be cleared,” the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said in a statement.

“More than 60,000 people live in temporarily displaced sites” and “they are very afraid to return to their homes,” said Titon Mitra, an UNDP spokesman in Myanmar, according to the announcement.

UNDP stressed that it used satellite images from Unosat, the UN satellite center, and the European Copernicus network, as well as data from Microsoft and the European Global Human Settlement Layer.

The 7.7 -magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28 was one of the strongest to be recorded in the country for a century and influenced six areas with a total of 28 million inhabitants, destroying buildings, leveling communities and leaving tens of thousands of people without food.

The military junta, which rules the country, in its last report last week, spoke of more than 3,600 dead.

Many of the country’s buildings had not been constructed with specifications to withstand such a strong earthquake, according to UNDP.

“Remote detection gives a very worrying picture. It is important to quickly verify this aerial view on the spot, “Mitra said.

“We need to restore patients and displaced under solid roofs and start repairing critical infrastructure,” he added, noting that “patients are now housed in parking, exposed to 40 degrees heat temperatures and heavy rainfall.”

He added that the operation of the transport is problematic, while the water supply does not work.

The data allows UNDP to identify priority areas for sending national engineers to rapidly evaluate the needs of critical buildings and infrastructure.

UNDP calls for an “urgently enhanced international response” to support reconstruction. Recognizing the complexity of operation in a country in the midst of multiple crises, the UN service considers “essentially these efforts to expand both to the affected urban areas and to the rural.”