Big earthquake in CM just now!

[Jeff the Chef]

Same here on the Phitsanulok/Phichit border, house swayed north to south.

[simon43]

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=2.63579,-272.76855&extent=26.07652,-226.80176

 

now reports a magnitude of 7.7!  very close to Mandalay (where I was teaching until only 2 months ago)

 

Update: Aftershocks...

 

To put this into context, the 2016 earthquake that damaged many of the historic temples in old Bagan was 6.8 on the Richter scale...

[connda]

This looks like it may be the culprit.  7.7 magitude in Myanmar.  That's a big shake

 

[connda]

[Bill97]

8 minutes ago, Digitalbanana said:

F-E Region     Myanmar
Time     2025-03-28 06:20:55.3 UTC
Magnitude     7.3
Epicenter     95.73°E 21.89°N
Depth     10 km
Status     A - automatic

 

Sounds more like it than the 4.x previously mentioned 

[Digitalbanana]

15 minutes ago, Digitalbanana said:

F-E Region     Myanmar
Time     2025-03-28 06:20:55.3 UTC
Magnitude     7.3
Epicenter     95.73°E 21.89°N
Depth     10 km
Status     A - automatic

 

 

 

Update with aftershock.

 

[Ginkas]

Friend in Mae Sariang said goods were falling off the shelves in Lotus and all the lights went out.

Centre of quake in Myanmar (Burma) just north of Pai.

 

[Denim]

Felt in Petchabun

 

I just left Big C and was sat in my car ( so felt nothing )  when everyone came streaming out of all doors looking scared. Thought it was a mad gunman on the loose but a passerby said earthqualke.  

 

 

[simon43]

Only 10km depth.  That's not good.  I hope everyone is OK in Mandalay...

[JohnOFphon]

35 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Who's fault is it?

.....oh....fault....got it...🙃

[connda]

Epicenter in Sagaing, Myanmar.  Prayers that everyone is Ok.  🙏

[prakhonchai nick]

sorry mate Prayers will do <deleted> all good!

[brewsterbudgen]

[Hanaguma]

If the epicentre was that shallow, and that close to Mandalay, the city might be in some serious trouble.  Hell, I felt it here on my 8th floor condo in Si Racha, south of Bangkok. Enough to make me stand up and look around.  

[flare]

https://fb.watch/yC0S50PHHi/?fs=e

[worgeordie]

I was in a Aquarium shop waiting to pay for my stuff , when I got this

strange feeling come over me , my legs were wobbling , I thought

I was having a heart attack , then all the water in the aquariums

was splashing out ,woman was screaming ,and everybody got out.

 

On the way home worried about my own Aquariums , and we have

a half built extension ,walls up and plastered , but that was Ok ,and

only one aquarium had splashed water out.

 

It was not as bad as one quite a few years ago , which had this terrible

roar with it , at first a 747 was going to land on the roof, no noise this time.

 

regards worgeordie

 

 

[connda]

[connda]

5 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Where was that?

[Harrisfan]

Exciting for them.

[connda]

4 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

I was in a Aquarium shop waiting to pay for my stuff , when I got this

strange feeling come over me , my legs were wobbling , I thought

I was having a heart attack

My first though - "Dang, I'm I having a stroke?"  Well, until I saw stuff moving. Man that was a long shake!

[Serenity_Now]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1905511502435791007

 

 

[connda]

7 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

If the epicentre was that shallow, and that close to Mandalay, the city might be in some serious trouble.  Hell, I felt it here on my 8th floor condo in Si Racha, south of Bangkok. Enough to make me stand up and look around.  

Mandalay is probably a wreak. 

[KhunBENQ]

1 minute ago, connda said:

Where was that?

On Twitter it only says "Chatuchak Area".

Seems a high rise under construction.

 

[Andrew Dwyer]

3 minutes ago, connda said:

Where was that?

 

 

[grain]

We're in Pak Thong Chai, Korat and felt nothing at all here. Is the video of the big building collapsing at Bang Sue connected to the earthquake in Myanmar, or a different reason?...OK, I read now it collapsed due to the earthquake. Jesus wept, there's bound to be many lives lost in this.

[jas007]

I'm sitting here at Wongamat Beach and, unless I'm crazy, I didn't feel a thing.  

 

I've lived in California, so I've been through a few earthquakes.  Usually, it's no big deal.  A few things shaken up and then it's over.  I remember 1989 and the big earthquake up in San Francisco, but at the time, I was at a strip club with a friend in San Diego.  We didn't feel anything.  The kinds of earthquakes they usually had in San Diego were no big deal.  

 

In Japan, the building codes are such that earthquakes are expected.  In Thailand, I'm not so sure.  I guess I'll keep my fingers crossed. 

[Sierra Tango]

40 minutes ago, connda said:

I'm trying to find out where it originated. 

In Myanmar. Looks like west of Chiang Rai. 7.7 and 10 KM deep.

[johnnybangkok]

12 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

 Same one but a better angle 

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16FCvw8NXy/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[Sierra Tango]

3 minutes ago, grain said:

We're in Pak Thong Chai, Korat and felt nothing at all here. Is the video of the big building collapsing at Bang Sue connected to the earthquake in Myanmar, or a different reason?

Looks like definitely connected.

[KhunBENQ]

Korat plateau seems rocksolid.

Felt nothing though I was probably in the car.