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Two young students recounted their first experience of an earthquake when the effects of a big one in Myanmar rumbled into Thailand on Friday, with one of them saying that she initially thought she had spent too much time on her smartphone.
Operations of Bangkok’s mass transit Pink and Yellow lines are suspended for another day today, as structural engineers ensure that they are safe, the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRT) announced on Saturday.
In a bid to allay concerns among condo residents and owners over the safety of condominiums, in the aftermath of Friday’s earthquake, the Thai Condominium Association (Thaicondo) offered an assurance today that all tall residential buildings constructed since 2007 were designed to withstand earthquakes.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is disappointed with the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) and the Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department (PDPMD) for their tardiness in alerting the public via the SMS system about yesterday’s earthquake.
The earthquake today, measured at between 7.4 and 7.7 on the Richter scale, was the strongest to hit Thailand since 1930, when about 500 people were killed, according to Phichit Sombatmak, director-general of the Mineral Resources Department.
A total of 77 aftershocks, of magnitudes between 2.4 and 7.1 on the Richter scale, have been detected since 1.20pm yesterday, but most of them were not felt in Thailand, according to the Meteorological Department.
Rescue teams are detecting the vital signs of about 15 people trapped under the debris of a skyscraper under construction in Bangkok, which collapsed in Friday’s earthquake, the director of the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office, Suriyachai Rawiwan, said today.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra this evening visited the site where a skyscraper under construction collapsed during a powerful earthquake in Myanmar, which sent tremors across Thailand, particularly in Bangkok.
President Donald Trump said Friday that the US was going to help with the response to Southeast Asia’s deadly earthquake as Myanmar’s ruling junta made a rare request for international humanitarian aid and declared a state of emergency across six regions.
The 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar at noon yesterday, particularly affecting Sagaing and surrounding areas, will have unfathomable impacts on an already isolated and crisis-ridden nation.
Traffic in Bangkok came to a standstill this afternoon after a strong earthquake in Myanmar shook the capital, causing damage to multiple buildings and forcing the closure of main roads and expressways.
The death toll from a collapsed under-construction skyscraper, brought down by the strong earthquake that hit Myanmar and sent tremors to Bangkok, has risen to eight, Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said last night.
A powerful earthquake rattled Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand on Friday, trapping dozens of workers in a collapsed under-construction skyscraper in Bangkok where a state of emergency was declared.
Thai police have arrested a French fugitive on the tropical holiday island of Phuket over a deadly prison breakout that freed a notorious drug baron nicknamed "The Fly".
Arguably, the toughest thing the People’s Party has learned this week is that, without extreme patience, the only way to bring Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra down is through a “twisted” system it denounces.
Three people were found dead, and over 40 remain missing after a 30-storey building under construction for the State Audit Office collapsed following an earthquake in Myanmar this afternoon.
