This is some serious shaking.

 

Yes, that´s right! Only craaaap left.

After having been within 4 miles of the epicenter of the Loma Prieta quake....Seeing streets roll 3-4 feet, houses jump off their foundations, & an entire mountain shift about 40 feet ripping the highway and concrete rebar reinforced medians like paper....

I shudder to think of what can happen here with all the water towers, brick houses & high rises without steel framework, cement power poles, and marginally constructed roads.....

A big quake will be catastrophic....The one thing that is good is no underground natural gas pipelines feeding residential and commercial areas....

53 minutes ago, pgrahmm said:

After having been within 4 miles of the epicenter of the Loma Prieta quake....Seeing streets roll 3-4 feet, houses jump off their foundations, & an entire mountain shift about 40 feet ripping the highway and concrete rebar reinforced medians like paper....

I shudder to think of what can happen here with all the water towers, brick houses & high rises without steel framework, cement power poles, and marginally constructed roads.....

A big quake will be catastrophic....The one thing that is good is no underground natural gas pipelines feeding residential and commercial areas....

I guess one reason why such shoddy building construction is allowed in Thailand is for the simple fact that the country doesn't lie on any large tectonic plate fault-line.  The chance of a large earthquake is very small.

 

Here's a link to the USGS live earthquake map:

 

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-13.93907,63.10153&extent=43.0571,169.88864

1 hour ago, simon43 said:

I guess one reason why such shoddy building construction is allowed in Thailand is for the simple fact that the country doesn't lie on any large tectonic plate fault-line.  The chance of a large earthquake is very small.

 

Here's a link to the USGS live earthquake map:

 

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-13.93907,63.10153&extent=43.0571,169.88864

True, with seemingly hot water springs & geysers just about everywhere....

26 minutes ago, pgrahmm said:

True, with seemingly hot water springs & geysers just about everywhere....

That just indicates the crust is thin. Earthquakes are caused by different situations. However I wonder if a volcano could happen.