Earthquake Rocks Bangkok: Building Collapses with 40 people inside

[josephbloggs]

2 hours ago, CK1980 said:

You are mistaken. There is substantial infrastructure damage across the city. MRT, BTS and many many condos with huge cracks and possibly to be condemned. This is very serious. 

I am sure there is damage - it was a large earthquake! I don't see widespread damage at all.

Where's your evidence that the MRT and BTS have huge cracks and are possibly to be condemned? Care to share please. Both are running today after extensive checks yesterday.

Link?

[josephbloggs]

1 hour ago, Rolo89 said:

If only it was that easy to asses the structural inegrity of buildings by driving by!

 

If 6 are already declared uninhabital without a detailed assesment it's going to be a lot worse after there's the time to assess them all properly. Which might take weeks with how many need experts looking at them!

 

Six out of how many thousand high rises? It is a tiny tiny percentage. And yes, there will be more to come out, but still nearly all buildings behaved excellently.

As I said in another reply it was an unprecedented event - a huge earthquake. But overall the city seems to have survived remarkably well, the majority of structures are just fine.

From reading some posters hysteric nonsense on here you would think half the city had collapsed. One under construction building collapsed. 

[Mr Meeseeks]

11 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

after extensive checks yesterday.

 

Quite a feat to check thousands of concrete structures in such a short space of time.

 

Remarkable.

[josephbloggs]

12 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

The crane moving around forcefully , the crane was moving with some power .

   The crane seems to have weakened the whole precast side of the building and it caused the bottom pillars to collapse and then the whole building came down 

 

 

Our resident construction expert shares his wisdom yet again.

[Celsius]

15 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

As I said in another reply it was an unprecedented event - a huge earthquake.

 

Yes, you said it many times.... except it wasn't an earthquake. That happened 1000km away. It was a tremor, below 5.0 on a scale.

 

Jesus Wept another dolt who probably owns a now worthless condo 

[TedG]

 

 

 

This channel does a good job of breaking down construction failures

[josephbloggs]

10 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

 

Quite a feat to check thousands of concrete structures in such a short space of time.

 

Remarkable.

Not really. Global standard for checking overhead rail lines after an earthquake has a series of checks (visual, ultrasonic if need be, running trains at crawl speeds to check rail lines and signalling) that are conducted over a period of 12-24 hours. Most elevated rail lines reopen within 24 hours of an earthquake.

Seems Bangkok followed the global protocol and reopened with the established time frame. Yellow and Pink lines taking a bit longer but I saw test trains running on the yellow line today so expect that to open tomorrow.

Nothing remarkable about it.

[josephbloggs]

10 minutes ago, Celsius said:

 

Yes, you said it many times.... except it wasn't an earthquake. That happened 1000km away. It was a tremor, below 5.0 on a scale.

 

Jesus Wept another dolt who probably owns a now worthless condo 

Jesus Wept, picking up on the semantics of a single word, is that all you're interested in? It WAS an earthquake, it happened in Myanmar in case you missed the news. All these things were caused by an earthquake as that was what it is was and that was where it started.

Change the word "earthquake" to "tremor" in my post if it makes you feel smug and self important, it really makes no difference to me. Changes nothing though.

Seriously, why do you bother posting when all you have is to pick on a word rather than the substance? And then followed by a childish personal attack.

 

[Celsius]

8 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Jesus Wept, picking up on the semantics of a single word, is that all you're interested in? It WAS an earthquake, it happened in Myanmar in case you missed the news. All these things were caused by an earthquake as that was what it is was and that was where it started.

Change the word "earthquake" to "tremor" in my post if it makes you feel smug and self important, it really makes no difference to me. Changes nothing though.

Seriously, why do you bother posting when all you have is to pick on a word rather than the substance? And then followed by a childish personal attack.

 

 

You said it was a huge earthquake, while most likely gesturing with harmonica hands. 

 

It wasn't anything close to huge or even big. The only thing that's huge is a damage caused by 3rd world building standards.

[Elkski]

As I watched the thousands of people fleeing in the streets and all those tall buildings looming 360 degrees it's so wonderful that 1 didn't come down into the crowded streets.    Looking like renting a condo is much better than buying.   I wonder how many expats  lost their accommodations?

[Kevin_Beethoven]

9 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I'm impressed that only one building fell down.

The way my home in CM was shaking I'm impressed it didn't fall down either.

I was thinking same.

Surely there are many other building under construction in BKK.

Why didn't they fall down?

 

And existing buildings seemed to have fared fairly well, at least for now.

 

Seems like there must be some massive issue with the construction materials of the fallen building or it is a case of a number of factors that produced the worst example of bad luck ever seen.

[AGLV0121]

On 3/28/2025 at 6:24 AM, MikeandDow said:

Read the news,    iam talking about Thai construction meaning bulding, roads, bridges ect   Thai consruction is in the dark ages !!

Road, bridges, highways are mostly built by Italian companies LOL, they know what they do.

[MikeandDow]

1 minute ago, AGLV0121 said:

Road, bridges, highways are mostly built by Italian companies LOL, they know what they do.

What a load of rubbish  it thailand they are built by thai companys  it is the Law,   name the companys

[lordgrinz]

12 hours ago, Aussie999 said:

watch again, no pancake... the whole structure seemed to collapse. 

 

Yes, and the World Trade Centers were different design, where the support was the outside metal cage structure. This building has multiple support beams on each floor, I'm betting more on the cause being cheap concrete. In fact, wasn't this the same issue with Thai-Italia working on Rama II? Why is the government using this company for anything?!

[josephbloggs]

6 minutes ago, AGLV0121 said:

Road, bridges, highways are mostly built by Italian companies LOL, they know what they do.

In Italy maybe, but not here. And do you remember the Morandi Bridge collapse in 2018?

Thankfully no Italian construction here.

[lordgrinz]

9 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I'm impressed that only one building fell down.

The way my home in CM was shaking I'm impressed it didn't fall down either.

 

Same here in Nonthaburi, it felt like the townhouse was on Jello wobbling all over, enough that when I stood up from the kitchen table I almost lost balance. 

[MikeandDow]

1 minute ago, lordgrinz said:

 

Yes, and the World Trade Centers were different design, where the support was the outside metal cage structure. This building has multiple support beams on each floor, I'm betting more on the cause being cheap concrete. In fact, wasn't this the same issue with Thai-Italia working on Rama II? Why is the government using this company for anything?!

Yes my money is on cheap concrete   not up to spec     i have seen Thai-Italia  company work up close its a shocker  had pleny of NCR from me !!

[Elkski]

Wife says lots of Thai's are thinking corruption in the government building that collapsed.    I'm wondering if an unfinished building may not have all the earth quake devices installed yet?    The videos of those tall buildings seating is incredible.  It will be interesting how many residences will be condemned.   Maybe now Thailand will be forced to deal with real humanitarian issues.  

[Celsius]

Everything is A-OK

 

Just hire 2 Burmese to patch things up

 

 

[josephbloggs]

28 minutes ago, Celsius said:

Everything is A-OK

 

Just hire 2 Burmese to patch things up

 

 

Superficial damage. The amount those tall buildings moved surely some tiles and plaster falling off is to be expected.

What's your point?

[Celsius]

11 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Superficial damage. The amount those tall buildings moved surely some tiles and plaster falling off is to be expected.

What's your point?

 

Thai boots...mmmmm

 

If that's superficial damage you need your head examined.

 

Or you "own" a condo 🤣

[CallumWK]

2 hours ago, AGLV0121 said:

Road, bridges, highways are mostly built by Italian companies LOL, they know what they do.

 

Italian-Thai has nothing to do with Italy.

 

Italian–Thai Development PCL is the umbrella company of Italthai Group although Italthai management insists that, "The management of the Italthai Group and its subsidiaries have nothing whatsoever to do with Italian-Thai Development"^[4] Italthai is a group of privately-owned businesses connected to Italian–Thai Development PCL. Its businesses are construction equipment,^[5] construction,^[6] hospitality,^[7] and lifestyle.^[8] The group employs more than 5,000 employees in seven countries across Asia Pacific.^[9

[josephbloggs]

10 minutes ago, Celsius said:

 

Thai boots...mmmmm

 

If that's superficial damage you need your head examined.

 

Or you "own" a condo 🤣

Ok buddy.

Enjoy.

[greeneking]

18 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

Italian-Thai has nothing to do with Italy.

 

Italian–Thai Development PCL is the umbrella company of Italthai Group although Italthai management insists that, "The management of the Italthai Group and its subsidiaries have nothing whatsoever to do with Italian-Thai Development"^[4] Italthai is a group of privately-owned businesses connected to Italian–Thai Development PCL. Its businesses are construction equipment,^[5] construction,^[6] hospitality,^[7] and lifestyle.^[8] The group employs more than 5,000 employees in seven countries across Asia Pacific.^[9

I think their lawyers don't want anyone to understand anything.

[Celsius]

Someone posted pictures of this condo yesterday claiming there was no damage. They took a clear photo completely avoiding the entrance. All this damage from tremors that are less than 5 on Richter scale 

 

This video tells another story. Name of condo Life Ladprao Valley 

 

Careful, we have some massive liars with the agenda here.....

 

 

 

[Celsius]

Another "luxury" condo, this one Ideo Asoke

 

 

[Lorry]

On 3/28/2025 at 6:14 PM, DUS said:

Hardly shook?

 

Wtf do you live in BKK?

 

Central BKK

[Rolo89]

7 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

 

Six out of how many thousand high rises? It is a tiny tiny percentage. And yes, there will be more to come out, but still nearly all buildings behaved excellently.

As I said in another reply it was an unprecedented event - a huge earthquake. But overall the city seems to have survived remarkably well, the majority of structures are just fine.

From reading some posters hysteric nonsense on here you would think half the city had collapsed. One under construction building collapsed. 

That's 6 that were declared unsafe to live in within hours of it before any detailed checks.

 

There's extensive damage to the many other high rises.

 

It might just be superficial but it's very likley more will be condemed. 

 

Bankgkok is built on soft clay and corruption is rife - some that are now unsafe were only finished very recently. 

 

No one will be buying these condos for a while, will impact many jobs. The UK cladding issue on condos is so minor compared to this and has caused so many problems for the last 5+ years.

[ourmanflint]

I wonder how many 100’s of Bangkok Condos will be condemned as unsafe after inspection for damage from the earthquake? 
imagine if it wasn’t 1200km away

[scubascuba3]

8 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

The crane moving around forcefully , the crane was moving with some power .

   The crane seems to have weakened the whole precast side of the building and it caused the bottom pillars to collapse and then the whole building came down 

Apparently it's better if the buildings sway, the building that collapsed didn't seem to move at all