Earthquake CM

[jonwilly]

At 01.28 my room shook as it has done in past Earthquakes.

 

john

[StevieH]

6.0 in myanmar apparently. pretty hefty wobble here.

[Genericnic]

16 minutes ago, StevieH said:

6.0 in myanmar apparently. pretty hefty wobble here.

On the 12th floor and definitely noticeable here.

 

David

 

[PFV]

From the USGS website > M 6.0 - 39km WSW of Pyu, Burma (https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000cifa#executive). 

Slight shaking in Saraphi.

[pgrahmm]

We have 3 cats.....One or a couple of them started low tone howl/growling just before it hit....

I couldn't sleep & thought initially my wife was kicking in her sleep but the bed was shifting back & forth.....

No noise or rattles around the house......Grew up in CA & was 4 miles away from the Loma Prieta epicenter so this was pretty easy......

With all the brick & mortar construction & lack of steel girder tall construction + high rise water tanks & snap-able power poles lining the streets next to termite weakened trees about - Thailand doesn't need a major earthquake....It would be devastating.....

[Ricardo]

A whole series of 4s-5s in Myanmar yesterday early-evening, according to the TMD, who are always a bit slow/delayed to report shocks unfortunately  ...

 

http://www.earthquake.tmd.go.th/en/local.html

[alex8912]

I felt it in Bangkok in my condo on the 23rd floor just before 1:30am. My bathroom door moved and made a creaking sound and went out to the dining room and saw the crystals on the overhead light moving. Felt it slightly but did goggle it a few minutes later and it said a 6.0 in Myanmar that seems about 800k from BKK!

Edited January 12, 2018 by alex8912

[mania]

5 hours ago, pgrahmm said:

With all the brick & mortar construction & lack of steel girder tall construction + high rise water tanks & snap-able power poles lining the streets next to termite weakened trees about - Thailand doesn't need a major earthquake....It would be devastating.....

 

Yep....

While living in Chiang Mai that is the one thing I thought about often when watching buildings going up.

We were in a condo on the 6th floor during the last one that was centered near Chiang Rai (2014 I think?) & feeling that condo sway was not fun

[sharktooth]

I thought I felt it, but then again I was a bit steaming by that time.

[thaibeachlovers]

I was awake then and didn't notice anything.

 

In Pattaya I saw a post and beam concrete building being built and thought to myself if there was an earthquake it would last no more than one good shake. Really skinny pillars.

Made a note to myself never to stay in that hotel.

[Sparkles]

I experinced 2 earthquakes while working in the Philippines.Both in the Baguio area up in Northern Luzon .

 

I dont remember the magnitude figs but they were big and quite a loss of life ensued as buildings collapsed or slid down the mountain sides.

 

It was a very scary expereince as obviously you dont know, at the time, just how long it will last.

 

The feeling ,both times, it was late at night and I was in bed. I can only relate it to being on  a water bed that refuses to stop swaying giving one a feeling of disorientation

 

Pictures fell down from the walls, ceilings cracked,dogs howled.Power and water went out for 24 hrs

 

We had another minor tremor some years back in CM which was felt at our place in Hang Dong  but not this time

 

 

[sfokevin]

My greatest fear in CM is of sitting in the Food Court of Kad Suan  Kaew listening to Elvis and seeing my Heineken bottle start to shake...