Thailand's Seismic Activity: 59 Earthquakes Place Country in Global Top 100

[webfact]

Paramedics take a relative of a missing person who fell unconscious while waiting at the site of an under-construction high-rise building that collapsed after Friday's earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

 

In a startling revelation, Thailand has been ranked 59th out of the top 100 countries experiencing earthquakes, recording 59 seismic events this year.

 

The strongest quake registered a magnitude of 4.9. Although not in the top 10, Thailand's position highlights the country's significant vulnerability to tectonic activity.

 

Data supplied by earthquakelist.org, sourced from the US Geological Survey and the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, updates daily based on magnitude 4.0 or higher quakes within 300 kilometres of a country's borders.

 

The list showcases Indonesia leading with an eye-popping 517 quakes and a top magnitude of 6.1, with Mexico following at 483 quakes peaking at 6.2. Greece and Türkiye also rank high with 413 and 403 quakes, illustrating notable seismic action.

 

 

 

 

Additional seismic giants in the top 10 include China (324 quakes, 7.1 magnitude), Ethiopia (241 quakes, 5.9 magnitude), Chile (225 quakes, 6.1 magnitude), Japan (222 quakes, 6.8 magnitude), India (197 quakes, 7.1 magnitude), and the Philippines (196 quakes, 5.7 magnitude).

 

Their high activity is due to their positions along the dynamic tectonic plate boundaries where earthquakes are fiercely common.

 

Rich in natural beauty, Thailand's place on the list may garner concern for residents and visitors. Despite being less dramatically affected than countries like Japan and Indonesia, the persistent tremors serve as a reminder of the underlying geological forces at play.

 

With its location near active tectonic plates, being informed and prepared remains essential for those residing or travelling in Thailand, where the ground is far from still.

 

Based on a story by The Thaiger

 

-- 2025-04-03

 

 

[Tropicalevo]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Thailand's place on the list may garner concern for residents and visitors.

 

For hundreds of years, no one has cared.

A couple of years from now and no one will care again, unless the press keep pushing things like this.

It is the size of the earthquake that matters, not the number of them.

43 earthquakes in the UK in the last 60 days.

 

https://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_uk_events.html

 

This from Wikipedia regarding quakes in the UK.

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On average, several hundred earthquakes are detected by the British Geological Survey each year,

 

[StayinThailand2much]

8 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

For hundreds of years, no one has cared.

 

Exactly. I was on the second floor of a building during the earthquake, but I stayed all cool. Only checked, whether there appeared any cracks in the ceiling, or not.

 

Talking of which, I wouldn't be surprised if the TAT soon blamed 'earthquake angst' in case less Chinese visitors arrived... 😆 

[MikeandDow]

This planet has a molten core which is cooling,  of course its moving, hundreds of quake every day throught the world, its be big one's  we should be worried about but also not be stupid and try to build a tower on swampland and use the chinese to build it

[MikeandDow]

Thailand has no idea !! the latest news is they want to buy seismographs budget 9 million baht  and put them in tower buildings ,    you can buy the machine for 40,000 each the best placement is seismographs are ideally placed in quiet, remote areas on hard rock, far from noise sources like traffic and industry, and preferably in subsurface locations for temperature stability.  is this not blatent courupption !!!!  does nobody do research or due diligence when spending tax payers money Thailand should be ashamed letting people do this

[connda]

Good to know. Small tremors relieve pressure.  Big tremors less likely.

[black tabby12345]

22 hours ago, connda said:

Good to know. Small tremors relieve pressure.  Big tremors less likely.

 

Good point.

[geisha]

We had around 15 tremors in and around Nice /Cannes 2 weeks ago. We had one tsunami in Antibes near my home in 1979 . It wasn’t of the size of the big one in Phuket where I saw it all from my balcony, but damaged Nice airports runway and we had a few smaller yachts in the beach village. 

[couchpotato]

On 4/3/2025 at 12:00 PM, MikeandDow said:

Thailand has no idea !! the latest news is they want to buy seismographs budget 9 million baht  and put them in tower buildings ,    you can buy the machine for 40,000 each the best placement is seismographs are ideally placed in quiet, remote areas on hard rock, far from noise sources like traffic and industry, and preferably in subsurface locations for temperature stability.  is this not blatent courupption !!!!  does nobody do research or due diligence when spending tax payers money Thailand should be ashamed letting people do this

"you can buy the machine for 40,000 baht"  This  comment is definitely not correct, although the rest of your sentence is factual.  Maybe explain what you call a 'machine' and what you are going to get for $1200.