Earthquake Rocks Bangkok: Building Collapses with 40 people inside

[steven100]

1 minute ago, MikeandDow said:

but the country lacks follow-up campaigns to check on the state of buildings.

errr'   ..........  don't you really mean corruption overtook any requirements

[MikeandDow]

Just now, steven100 said:

errr'   ..........  don't you really mean corruption overtook any requirements

Already said that in a earlier post,   the baht can get you anything !!!

[novacova]

4 hours ago, CharlieH said:

 

A devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar today, sending shockwaves as far as Bangkok and causing widespread devastation. The epicenter was near Mandalay at a depth of 10 kilometers. The impact was strongly felt, prompting chaos and evacuations across the Thai capital.

 

In Bangkok, a building near Chatuchak Park collapsed, trapping more than 40 people inside. According to police and emergency services, 43 workers remain buried under the debris, while seven have managed to escape. Rescue operations are in full swing, with help from the National Emergency Response and Rescue Centre, as teams work tirelessly to reach survivors.

 

The Thai government has responded swiftly, convening an emergency meeting to address the crisis. Buildings in Bangkok, not typically designed for such quakes, suffered damage, highlighting the severity of the situation. The US Geological Survey and BBC reports confirm that strong tremors were felt even in southern China, making this a significant regional event.

 

28-03-2025

 

 

Terrible 

[ronnie50]

Thailand needs to quickly call in the international expert search and rescue teams who routinely fly into really bad earthquake zones like we've seen in Turkiye and Iran and elsewhere. Within a few hours they can be on scene and finding their ways through the rubble with dogs and other equipment. I know the govt has lost face/confidence given the collpase in the first place, but to rely on inexperienced search teams in a case like this will result in needless deaths. 

[ikke1959]

If an earthquake of 1000km away can bring this kind of damage, you can question the quality of the building constructions.. Suppose it happened in Chiang Mai or Kanchanaburi.. How much damage could have been done. I hope that people will get safe rescued under the debris with the most urgency, even they are Myanmar.. Nature has powers that nobody can control, just a proof of it

[MikeandDow]

Just heard in bangkok people cannot get home  no buses no trains no mrt taxi fares have tripled  this is the thai goverment emergency resopnse  strand people !!!

[richard_smith237]

Just now, MikeandDow said:

Just heard in bangkok people cannot get home  no buses no trains no mrt taxi fares have tripled  this is the thai goverment emergency resopnse  strand people !!!

 

Yup... its been in the Thai social media already... 

 

Families unable to travel getting absolutely creamed by Taxi drivers...   500-1000 baht for a 50-100 baht fare etc...  

 

Hopefully this gets the media attention it deserves and triggers the Police to deal with the scam taxi drivers refusing to use meters etc once and for all...    I won't be holding my breath... 

[richard_smith237]

4 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

If an earthquake of 1000km away can bring this kind of damage, you can question the quality of the building constructions.. Suppose it happened in Chiang Mai or Kanchanaburi.. How much damage could have been done. I hope that people will get safe rescued under the debris with the most urgency, even they are Myanmar.. Nature has powers that nobody can control, just a proof of it

 

It was 580km away and an estimated 4.5Mw Magnitude by the time the energy reached Bangkok (within approximately 1.5 minutes after the quake in Myanmar)

 

There can't be a quake in Chiang Mai or Kanchanaburi because its not on a plate boundary.

 

  This earthquake, in Myanmar was from the Sagaing Fault, which is a strike-slip (transform) fault where the Indian Plate and the Sunda Plate (or Burma Microplate) slide past each other horizontally.  

[geisha]

1 hour ago, kwilco said:

So sorry to hear about the quake in Bangkok - I"m out of the country at the moment and can't find any information about how other areas of Thailand have beeb affected - in particular those nearer te epicentre in Myanmar.

Has anyone heard?

Hi , I’m in France at the moment glued to the BBC and their reporters.  Not much news from Thailand / Bangkok, mostly tourists and their filming being shown , some live. The collapsed building , and thousands of people running like hell out of shopping malls / condos, and waiting in the parks. I don’t believe they have received any instructions from the government so far. Lots of falling concrete etc and the spectacular overflowing top floor pool that looked like the hotel opposite the Erawan shrine . Obviously worries about  the sky train and metro.

As for poor Myanmar , they’ve asked for international help, rare, but not much news / phots, except collapsed bridges. Well know more tomorrow .

Im very surprised that ASEAN Now hasn’t followed this up better??

[richard_smith237]

14 minutes ago, ronnie50 said:

Thailand needs to quickly call in the international expert search and rescue teams who routinely fly into really bad earthquake zones like we've seen in Turkiye and Iran and elsewhere. Within a few hours they can be on scene and finding their ways through the rubble with dogs and other equipment. I know the govt has lost face/confidence given the collpase in the first place, but to rely on inexperienced search teams in a case like this will result in needless deaths. 

 

I've seen photos of Thai rescue teams - they have their search dogs etc.

 

If I'm not mistaken, Thailand sends its experts overseas as part of an international effort when similar issues happen (i.e. Turkiye and Iran), so I don't believe there is a reason to suspect inexperience. 

 

That said, calling in any help is not a bad thing.

[steven100]

19 minutes ago, ronnie50 said:

Thailand needs to quickly call in the international expert search and rescue teams

      a Thai ask some outside for help     !!!!!!      your joking right.    because it will never happen

[MikeandDow]

2 minutes ago, steven100 said:

      a Thai ask some outside for help     !!!!!!      your joking right.    because it will never happen

Well if they did not ask for help in a rescue a football team would be dead !!

[John Drake]

Saw lots of hospital evacuations on Twitter/X with patients rolled out into the 38 degree streets. My house only got hit by rolling waves of tremors for maybe 45 seconds to a minute. Maybe it was more. Don't know. But no damage and no damage in my village. This is out on Phutthamonthon Sai 3. So it looks like the really bad stuff was among the big towers and condos. Keep thinking that someone could have been washed over the side of the building in one of those condo/hotel pools I saw that were turned into waterfalls. 

[Ben Zioner]

3 hours ago, MikeandDow said:

Thai Constuction  !!    there is No quality or safety in Thai construction   no standards in  design   design approval by coruption   so what do you expect !!

Indeed, one in thousands of buildings which didn't get any damage at all.

[steven100]

18 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

That said, calling in any help is not a bad thing.

Not a bad thing for any logical thinking country .....    but Thailand ,   that would show embarrassment or lose of face (   which I hate to call it as it's just another word for embarrassed or caught out )   

[MikeandDow]

Well you can say that building did not meet thai building code !!  must be big coruption gone on ! but this will be the last you hear of it "Swept under the rug"

[CaptainPeacock]

2 hours ago, kwilco said:

I see the airports have been evacuated...mRT and BTS are evacuated too.

 

From Thai Airways FB page:

 

Travel Update: Bangkok Flights Operating as Normal

Following today’s earthquake, we’d like to reassure our passengers that all flights to and from Bangkok are operating as scheduled.

However, our offices in Thailand are temporarily closed.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Ralf001]

24 minutes ago, geisha said:

Hi , I’m in France at the moment glued to the BBC and their reporters.  Not much news from Thailand / Bangkok, mostly tourists and their filming being shown , some live. The collapsed building , and thousands of people running like hell out of shopping malls / condos, and waiting in the parks. I don’t believe they have received any instructions from the government so far. Lots of falling concrete etc and the spectacular overflowing top floor pool that looked like the hotel opposite the Erawan shrine . Obviously worries about  the sky train and metro.

As for poor Myanmar , they’ve asked for international help, rare, but not much news / phots, except collapsed bridges. Well know more tomorrow .

Im very surprised that ASEAN Now hasn’t followed this up better??

 

I left  Samutprakarn to drive back to Chonburi at 2.30pm... it was gridlocked... many with personal transport getting out of BKK.

[Ben Zioner]

1 hour ago, MikeandDow said:

read the news   i'm not your secretary !!   and if you read the news on here you will see more than one construction has collapsed 

Absolutely not.

[Nick Carter icp]

15 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

I left  Samutprakarn to drive back to Chonburi at 2.30pm... it was gridlocked... many with personal transport getting out of BKK.

 

   Going someone to get away from earthquakes ?

[Kevin_Beethoven]

Gotta love US media: Today show leads with "Massive earthquake hits central Bangkok".
No mention of Myanmar. 

 

 

[Ben Zioner]

52 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

That said, calling in any help is not a bad thing.

Not need for that at all.. Send them to the US to sort out the Trump cataclysm.

1 hour ago, MikeandDow said:

read the news   i'm not your secretary !!   and if you read the news on here you will see more than one construction has collapsed 

Absolutely not.

[Nick Carter icp]

1 minute ago, Kevin_Beethoven said:

Gotta love US media: Today show leads with "Massive earthquake hits central Bangkok".
No mention of Myanmar. 

 

 

 

   NBC Powerful earthquake hits Myanmar and Thailand ...

CBS   Deadly earthquakes hit Myanmar and Thailand, toppling ...

CNN Myanmar quake: Bangkok declared 'emergency zone' as ...

[MarkBR]

3 minutes ago, Kevin_Beethoven said:

Gotta love US media: Today show leads with "Massive earthquake hits central Bangkok".
No mention of Myanmar. 

 

Geography is not a strong point of US education, they may not know where Burma/Myanmar is.  They may not even rocognise the name.

 

[richard_smith237]

2 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:

51 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

That said, calling in any help is not a bad thing.

Not need for that at all.. Send them to the US to sort out the Trump cataclysm.

 

Congratulations. You've managed to gracelessly shoehorn 'Trump' into a topic that couldn't be less connected if you tried - a feat of intellectual bankruptcy so common it's practically a national pastime.

 

 

What is it with you Americans? It's as if the entire country is locked in some festering Freudian nightmare, unable to shut up about a bloated, orange spectre who haunts your every thought. Like deranged lovers muttering the name of the one who left them - pitiful, obsessed, and utterly incapable of moving on. It's pathetic.

[Kevin_Beethoven]

5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   NBC Powerful earthquake hits Myanmar and Thailand ...

CBS   Deadly earthquakes hit Myanmar and Thailand, toppling ...

CNN Myanmar quake: Bangkok declared 'emergency zone' as ...

This was on the "Today" show.
Seems like they did not have any video of Myanmar but tons of the Bangkok building collapse so led with that.

[CHdiver]

1 hour ago, ronnie50 said:

Thailand needs to quickly call in the international expert search and rescue teams

 

I guess Thailand will have no problem with just one building. Very different to the quake you mentioned from Turkey. There many cities have been destroied. Totally different scale of operation in that case.

[redwood1]

2 hours ago, MikeandDow said:

read the news   i'm not your secretary !!   and if you read the news on here you will see more than one construction has collapsed 

 

I would say a pay cut is in order for not being a very good secretary.....lol

[proton]

1 hour ago, MikeandDow said:

Just heard in bangkok people cannot get home  no buses no trains no mrt taxi fares have tripled  this is the thai goverment emergency resopnse  strand people !!!

 

Yes mrs waited hours for a van, now diverted due to closed expressways. Is there any source saying what roads are closed in Bkk?

[Ben Zioner]

26 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Congratulations. You've managed to gracelessly shoehorn 'Trump' into a topic that couldn't be less connected if you tried - a feat of intellectual bankruptcy so common it's practically a national pastime.

 

 

What is it with you Americans? It's as if the entire country is locked in some festering Freudian nightmare, unable to shut up about a bloated, orange spectre who haunts your every thought. Like deranged lovers muttering the name of the one who left them - pitiful, obsessed, and utterly incapable of moving on. It's pathetic.

 

Well it happens that I observed the the cloud of smoke from the collapsing building from the Ari BTS station, and I felt a lot less threatened by this tremor than by the present terrifying developments of US politics.

 

Anyhow, damage here in Bangkok is minimal some people show cracks in partition walls, which is normal as buildings were clearly undulating, structural devices will have to be checked though.

 

And everyone must have noted that the only building that has collapsed was to become the Kingdom's audit office; Thailand's telluric forces of resistance to change.