Yunnan deadly quake places Thai seismologists on high alert



BANGKOK: -- The 6.1 magnitude earthquake in China's Yunnan province that killed 367 people Sunday has placed Thai seismologists on high monitoring alert as it will have impact on closest faults in Myanmar and Thailand.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said the quake was the strongest to hit Yunnan in 14 years.

Director of Seismology Bureau of Thai Meteorological Department Mr Somboon Kositanond said initial assessment of the Yunnan quake yesterday in China showed it would have impact on the closest faults in Myanmar and Thailand.

He said affected in Myanmar is the Prachaeng fault, and Thailand’s Mae Hong Son and Mae Chan faults.

There might be earthquakes in this fault line area and seismologists have to monitor these faults closely for two months from now, he said.

He said officials were advised to check in which areas the Yunnan earthquake has affected on Thailand, adding that Thailand, Myanmar and Laos will have high chances of being affected by the Yunnan quake.

In 1970, a magnitude-7.7 earthquake in Yunnan killed at least 15,000 people, and a magnitude-7.1 quake in the province killed more than 1,400 in 1974. In September 2012, 81 people died and 821 were injured in a series of quakes in the Yunnan region.

In May 2008, a powerful quake in Sichuan province left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/yunnan-deadly-quake-places-thai-seismologists-high-alert/

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Oh no, hope there is no other quake here in CM dont feel safe in tall buildings, and there is really no open space to run to. Sitting under a hard table is not really going to help if the building comes down.

He said officials were advised to check in which areas the Yunnan earthquake has affected on Thailand

 

I wonder how office-bods can check things, like stresses on rocks ten km underground, do they use crystal-balls or divining-rods or those wonderful highly-adaptable GT200 bomb-detectors ?  

 

He said officials were advised to check in which areas the Yunnan earthquake has affected on Thailand

 

I wonder how office-bods can check things, like stresses on rocks ten km underground, do they use crystal-balls or divining-rods or those wonderful highly-adaptable GT200 bomb-detectors ? 

 

 

Watch the animals.  Research has shown that many animal species, including house dogs and cats seem to sense earthquake signs and signals before humans do.

 

 

He said officials were advised to check in which areas the Yunnan earthquake has affected on Thailand

 

I wonder how office-bods can check things, like stresses on rocks ten km underground, do they use crystal-balls or divining-rods or those wonderful highly-adaptable GT200 bomb-detectors ? 

 

 

Watch the animals.  Research has shown that many animal species, including house dogs and cats seem to sense earthquake signs and signals before humans do.

 

 

I just shot my pitbull with an AK47, shame
 

Edited August 4, 201411 yr by monk213

Thai seismologists perhaps are a different breed to others , what has the Quake in China got to do with northern Thailand , seismologists know that mother nature will decide when and where any Quake will occur , predicting quakes is impossible, to think that one  has happened a few thousand klms away will create the knock on effect is only being alarmist and causing undue worry, grow up.     

I've lived most of my life up and down the entire US West coast including Alaska where quakes are just a fact of life.

This is simple fear-monger.  How about this:  The Yunnan quake was directly caused by the North Thailand quakes.  The press loves to hype this type of pablum.

Ask a ghost where the next one will be or hide under a lucky tree.

Thai seismologists perhaps are a different breed to others , what has the Quake in China got to do with northern Thailand , seismologists know that mother nature will decide when and where any Quake will occur , predicting quakes is impossible, to think that one  has happened a few thousand klms away will create the knock on effect is only being alarmist and causing undue worry, grow up.     

 

While being no expert I do come from a place where there are a lot of earthquakes and being an inquisitive sort I learnt a little about this shaky subject.

 

Earthquakes are the movements of tectonic plates, the bits of land that are floating on the earths molten core, often called continental drift.

 

These plates are constantly moving and rubbing against one another with friction holding them together.

 

When the pressure of movement builds up it sometimes becomes to great, the friction will let go and a plate will move violently alongside another, that is when a quake occurs.

 

This in turn increases the pressure on another part of the join (fault line) between the plates and that increase in pressure can cause another movement on another part of the join.

 

This looks like what the seismologists are referring to, for the fault lines they quote must be part of the same join between the plates that moved causing the Yunnan quake.

 

Could even be that the recent quakes felt in Thailand are part of the same plate movement.