A man buried under earthquake rubble for five days has been rescued in Myanmar.

The shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake flattened buildings across the country on Friday, killing more than 2,700 people and making thousands more homeless.

Hopes of finding more survivors are fading, but there was a moment of joy on Wednesday when a man was pulled alive from the ruins of a hotel in the capital, Naypyidaw.

The 26-year-old hotel worker was rescued by a joint Myanmar-Turkish team shortly after midnight, the fire service and ruling military junta said.

Dazed and dusty but conscious, the man was pulled through a hole in the rubble and put on a stretcher, video posted on Facebook by the Myanmar fire brigade showed.