Major earthquake gelt here - Wiang Pa Pao Valley. I was inside when the house started shaking. Quick check shows wall and concrete driveway cracks. Roof appears intact - more later.

Seemed pretty strong in Ban Mai also, lasted around 20 seconds, but have not found any damage to the house yet. Couple of small after shocks barely noticeable.

Seems nearer (or stronger earthquake) than the ones from a couple of years ago.

Edit: Third aftershock longer and more powerful

Just felt one here in doi tung a few minutes ago

The dog just carried on sleeping though !

The mrs quickly ran outside

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According to TV Chiang Mai, strong there.

Earthquake report says it was just West of CR city.. depth 30km. strength 5.8

third kick in few minutes. all last only few seconds but very strong, compaired to the last one. i'm near Wiang Chai. Nothing damged.

Doi Hang in Chiang Rai almost fell down. My house was rocking and rolling. We had 2 significant aftershocks.

now they http://www.world-earthquakes.com/ say it was 5.7 at a depth of 2 km.

Felt it strongly just outside the center of Chiang Mai City .Time 6.10 pm .

The US Geo reports that it was a 6.3 centered 32 km from CR. No wonder my house was a rocking'. Only damage that I can see was my clock fell off the wall and is now in a number of pieces. Decided to take the car out of the carpark for the evening. It's easier to get to if there is no debris on it.

5 kms East of city, fairly strong, no damage, scared cats, boy of 17 not move from the computer!

Watching Mrs Lannaman strim the grass, she looked as if she thought she was drunk!

I'm NW of C.Rai a short distance. Felt it at 6:08 / 6:09

I'm from California, so it's a rush. Hope nobody got hurt.

This is the 4th significant quake I've felt here in 16 years. I even felt the one which damaged Phuket with waves. On Boxer day morning, early, I was sitting at cheapo table, and it started rocking slightly.

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now they http://www.world-earthquakes.com/ say it was 5.7 at a depth of 2 km.

that site now says 5.8 at 2 km.

Here is a ling to USGS site, which show the location on map.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000qack#summary

http://earthquaketrack.com/p/thailand/chiang-mai/recent

6.0 magnitude earthquake

Today 26 minutes ago at 11:08
May 05, 2014 UTC

Location:
Epicenter at 19.703, 99.683
27.2 km from Chiang Rai (16.2 miles)

Felt it down in Phayao. About 1808 heard the roar then the house started to move. Tsunami in the fish tank.

Just a little shake rattle and roll in Phaya Mengrai with no damage and didn't last very long.

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USGS PRELIMINARY REPORT M6.0 - THAILAND Preliminary Earthquake Report Magnitude 6.0 Date-Time

• 5 May 2014 11:08:43 UTC
• 5 May 2014 18:08:44 near epicenter
• 5 May 2014 21:08:43 standard time in your timezone

Location 19.703N 99.683E Depth 7 km Distances

• 9 km (5 mi) S of Mae Lao, Thailand
• 27 km (16 mi) SW of Chiang Rai, Thailand
• 39 km (24 mi) NW of Pa Daet, Thailand
• 52 km (32 mi) SSW of Mae Chan, Thailand
• 362 km (224 mi) WNW of Vientiane, Laos

I think we have more threads on the Chiang Mai forum than replies on this thread. Anyone left up there?

We tend to take things in stride here in the Rai.

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Getting a small after shock right now

Ooh that one was bigger than most

Some image reports of the damages on twitter.

https://twitter.com/benties_/status/463279769304309760/photo/1/large

https://twitter.com/Mtjunerr/status/463284839752290304/photo/1/large

Our earthquake made the ABC news in Australia. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-05/an-thailand-hit-by-magnitude-63-quake/5432116

Edit

Just after I posted another strong after shock.

Being 55 km East of Chiang Rai we are not in the sweet spot and only felt the first one. The sliding glass doors were rattling a bit and just now felt our first aftershock.

Just has two more good aftershocks, There must have been 10 by now.

One (new) crack in a wall; 1 crack in the concrete driveway (that I hadn't noticed before).

Total extent of the damage - not bad considering we are only 50 km from the epicentre.

Crazy - second earthquake here in in the past 8 years. NEVER one in my previous life.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/723853-strong-60-magnitude-quake-rattles-northern-thailand-usgs/

Already running in news, please keep everything on this thread.

Thansj