CNN  —  When a 7.7 magnitude earthquake destroyed her family’s home in Myanmar, US-based international student Hope Pyae felt helpless. On the morning of March 28, she woke to frantic calls from friends, who described to her the devastation of what was the strongest quake to have hit the country in more than 100 years. Thousands of people had been killed and injured, and untold numbers lay buried beneath the rubble. Glued to her phone, she grew desperate for updates as videos of fallen