A 7.7 magnitude earthquake was felt in Thailand and neighboring Myanmar on Friday afternoon. This caused a multi -storey building under construction in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. Police gave this information.
Police said that information about the number of possible casualties has not been received due to the earthquake. At the same time, Myanmar has declared emergency in six regions and states due to earthquake.
In a dramatic video aired on social media, a multi-storey building, which had a crane, is seen collapsing with a dust dust, while the people present there are running away screaming.
The police told the Associated Press that they had reached the spot near the popular quadruple market of Bangkok and were not immediately aware of how many workers were present there at the time of the building collapsed.
Another powerful setback of 6.4 magnitude came after the earthquake in the afternoon. The administration appealed to the people in Bangkok to come out of buildings and warned that they should be out in view of the possibility of more earthquake shocks.
Scotland tourist Fraser Morton, who came to buy camera equipment in the mall of Bangkok, said, “Suddenly the entire building started shaking there, which caused a scream.” I said, “I started walking peacefully first, but then there was a stir in the building, yes, there was a lot of screaming, a lot of panic started, people started getting very nervous, people started to run in the wrong direction. And things started to break. ”
Like the other thousands of Bangkok city, Morton also took refuge in Benjasiri Park, away from high buildings around. “I came out and then looked at the building which was shaking and then a balloon of dust and debris lifted, it happened very fast.”
According to initial reports, the US Geological Survey and the GFZ Geology Center of Germany reported that the earthquake in the afternoon came at a depth of 10 km (6.2 mi), which was in the neighboring country of Myanma.
According to videos and photos released on Facebook social media, the second largest city of Myanmar and some part of the former royal palace and some parts were damaged in Mandalay near the center of the earthquake.However, the city is in the earthquake potential area, here is generally low population, and most houses are low altitude.
A 90-year-old bridge collapsed in the south-west of Mandalay and some parts of the highway connecting Mandalay and Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, were also damaged.The residents of Youngon came out of their homes due to the earthquake. There is no immediate information about someone being injured or death.
The earthquake in Myanmar’s capital Nipita damaged religious sites, some parts of them collapsed and some houses have also been damaged.When an earthquake in Bangkok at around 1:30 pm, warning alarms started ringing in buildings and nervous residents were lowered from the stairs of tall buildings and hotels.
More than 1.7 crore people live in the large Bangkok region, most of which live in tall buildings. The water of ‘swimming pool’ built on the roofs of tall buildings in Bangkok came out due to earthquake and debris started falling from many buildings.
Hungary resident Sujsanna Wari-Covax, who lives in Bangkok, said, “I have experienced an earthquake twice before in Myanma, but it was only one second, but here it was at least, I will say, felt for a minute.” She was having dinner in a restaurant at the time of the earthquake. He said, “My husband lived in a high building, I think it’s worse.”
The Disaster Prevention Department of Thailand said the earthquake was felt in almost all areas of the country.
Prime Minister Patongtarn Shinavatra called an emergency meeting to assess the impact of the earthquake. Myanmar’s official MRTV Television said that the six regions and states of the country’s military government have announced the emergency, including the capital Nipita and Mandalay, as earthquakes in the afternoon and then powerful shocks are still continuing.
Myanmar is in the grip of civil war and it is not easy to reach many areas. It was not immediately clear what kind of relief the army is doing.
