Earthquake In Chiang Mai

[PeaceBlondie]

Was that a series of tremors just now, or did a superjumbo jet just take off from the airport? My partner thinks it was earthquake tremors. We both had headphones on at the time, so we're not sure if it had noise, too.

Edited December 12, 2006 by PeaceBlondie

[ovenman]

That was the strongest shaking I have felt since I have lived here!!!

[CobraSnakeNecktie]

Was that a series of tremors just now, or did a superjumbo jet just take off from the airport? My partner thinks it was earthquake tremors.

yeah... Hillside 4 was swaying around here on the top floor. A bit unnerving for sure.

[Nilapat]

I vote for earthquake.

I'm on the ground floor but it was still enough to give me a fright!

Edited December 12, 2006 by Nilapat

[Choscura]

about 4 minutes ago as of writing this, my house (in chiang mai) was just hit by a minor earthquake.

since I'm writing this 4 minutes after it happened, you can probably tell that the earthquake hasn't knocked out power or anything of the sort.

cheers, looking forward to more info.

Edited December 12, 2006 by Choscura

[PeaceBlondie]

hey ovenman, you posted about a minute before I did.

I've felt two real earthquake tremors in Chiang Mai stronger than that, but it did shake our home, near the airport.

[Cyberstar]

Most certainly an Earthquake.. Most unquestionably confirmed by two Earthquakely-experienced guys inside the moats. The clock said 12.03, but that I don't trust.

[JuniorExPat]

Was that a series of tremors just now, or did a superjumbo jet just take off from the airport? My partner thinks it was earthquake tremors. We both had headphones on at the time, so we're not sure if it had noise, too.

Close enough to the airport (without headphones on) to report that it was not a hairyplane.

All I can find on the net is a quake in the Celebes Sea - dunno if we would get that aftershock, more likely that Myanmar had a serious rumble, no?

JxP

[ovenman]

Earthquake for sure. I was eyeing my Christmas tree the whole time, hoping it wouldn't topple. I have mostly glass ornaments on it and they would not have survived a fall.

[Joon]

I felt it here near the Mae Hia research station/CMU agriculture center.

My strongest experience, too. I'm also on the ground floor, but wondered if my upstairs neighbor might drop in!

[chiang mai]

That wasn't minor, we're on the 15th floor downtown and it woke us both up. First time I've experienced anything like that here in five years!

[ovenman]

hey ovenman, you posted about a minute before I did.

I've felt two real earthquake tremors in Chiang Mai stronger than that, but it did shake our home, near the airport.

I'm up towards Mae Jo. I thought it was a pretty sharp shock here, but it didn't rumble on for too long.

[mapletree]

We felt it also. Guests from California estimate a 5.0. Anyone else? How can we find out the epicenter?

[ihop]

Earthquake...12:02am according to my laptop. House shook pretty strong and heard some load rumbling outside. I'm up here by the City Hall/Govt Offices. First one I've felt while in Chiang Mai.

[dvk1951]

PB,

Are you sure that is the right link, takes me to a dead end.

Edit: I merged 3 threads and left the one in General topics.

Edited December 12, 2006 by PeaceBlondie
Confusion

[keyser]

I´m at the 9th floor of Hillside, I felt it good. If felt bigger ones, but that one was not small, wonder where it began, might have been big somewhere else.

[ovenman]

I've noticed a couple minor aftershocks in the past half hour, which I probably wouldn't have felt had I not been laying down.

[kudroz]

So only Chiang Mai felt this?

[ovenman]

A 4.7 magnitude quake, according to the USGS: quakes report

[ourmanflint]

Just checked my Earthbrowser and yes there was a quake a 4.7 as Ovenman reported more details here

glad you're all OK

this is where Earthbrowser puts the epicentre ( shown in Google earth)

Edited December 13, 2006 by ourmanflint

[Ulysses G.]

I´m at the 9th floor of Hillside, I felt it good. If felt bigger ones, but that one was not small, wonder where it began, might have been big somewhere else.

Strongest one I've felt since the BIG ONE in San Francisco 1989.

Kind of got nervous there!

[svenivan]

So only Chiang Mai felt this?

We felt it also up in Chiang Rai. We have our own thread there.

I lived in Wellington, NZ, for a year 89-90 and we had a couple of heavy ones (5.6 - 5.8) and that shaked one up.

I had a friend there that was hypersensitive and he felt small ones noone else could feel. He could wake up in the middle of the night and 10 seconds later he could feel a small one. Checking with seismologic office proved him right all times.

He left to go back to Australia because he could not stand it.

:D

[PeaceBlondie]

Good point about individual sensitivity. When I stayed in Nicaragua, everybody except me felt one right after sunrise, including the howling dogs (much of the national capital was destroyed by a giant earthquake in the 1970's). The first day we filled the swimming pool on the beach in Chiapas, Feb. 2000, one big clap knocked my motorcycle down (we kept it in the living room). Two before in Chiang Mai, including the one that caused the tsunami.

But this shock was centered in Chiang Mai province, amphur muang, right?

[ovenman]

But this shock was centered in Chiang Mai province, amphur muang, right?

Plugging the coordinates from the USGS report into the mapping software I use put the epicenter just northwest of Mae Rim.

[Scott]

The bad part about earthquakes in Thailand is it wakes up all those sleeping bureaucrats and people assigned to inactive posts and they all start doing something.

Look forward to a real bad impact!