Phitsanulok Quake Shows Buildings Should Be Strengthened: Expert

[webfact]

 

AFTER a 4.5 magnitude earthquake rocked Phisanulok and was felt in Phichit and Kamphaeng Phet provinces at 12.17 a.m. today (June 29) an academic pointed out that buildings in this zone should be strengthened as a ministerial regulation governing seismic resistance of structures was only enforces in 2021, Naewna newspaper said.

 

Amorn Pimanmat of Kasetsart University’s engineering faculty said this was a medium magnitude earthquake but because it was shallow, being 5 kilometres deep at its epicentre in Phitsanulok’s Phai Lom subdistrict, Bang Krathum district, vibrations were felt across this province as well as nearby Phichit and Kamphaeng Phet provinces.

 

Earthquakes occur infrequently in this area with two having struck over the past 30 years including last night’s tremor with there being two known fault lines – Uttaradit and Phetchabun – in this zone.

 

by TNR Staff

Top: A graphic image showing cracks caused by an earthquake by by Htc Erl from Pixabay

 

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Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2023/06/29/phitsanulok-quake-shows-buildings-should-be-strengthened-expert/

 

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[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

an academic pointed out that buildings in this zone should be strengthened as a ministerial regulation governing seismic resistance of structures was only enforces in 2021, Naewna newspaper said.

Best of luck with that.

[rwill]

Or hang an amulet on each building.

[MrJ2U]

Nobody in the government or the private sector is going to pay to update there buildings. 

 

It's prohibitively expensive and the expertise in Thailand to do such thing would be practically non-existant. 

 

Thankfully earthquakes are rare in Thailand.