Are you in Thailand today? 28 March 2025 Did you feel the earthquake tremors?

[vinapu]

18 hours ago, bkkmfj2648 said:

A high-rise building under construction in Bangkok's Chatuchak district collapsed due to the quake.

in the below 2 Twitter (X) feeds you can see it collapsing.
 

https://x.com/120119_/status/1905515797234991340

https://x.com/nongmeaw33/status/1905511502435791007

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2989866/quake-in-myanmar-felt-in-bkk

 

some people seemed to be camera ready  when it struck

[vinapu]

16 hours ago, bkkmfj2648 said:

Would you get on that Bangkok train? 

 

yes , to get lifetime memories

[durian]

I'm down in Hat Yai in a high rise.  On the 27th floor I suddenly felt dizzy, looked at my window and saw we were swaying for around 3 minutes. It wasn't until an hour or so later and saw news feeds of what had happened, then it made sense. 

[bkkmfj2648]

1 hour ago, durian said:

I'm down in Hat Yai in a high rise.  On the 27th floor I suddenly felt dizzy, looked at my window and saw we were swaying for around 3 minutes.

Thanks for sharing your experience in the way southern part of Thailand.  I am only on the 18th floor - and I had that same dizzy nauseating feeling during those 3 long minutes here in Pattaya (Jomtien) that seemed like an eternity.

[Milk78]

I am in Chiang Mai at the moment and felt the building shake whilst in my 7th floor apartment. There doesn't appear to be any damage here but the earthquake was felt by all. Some reports from others in the building say they had bits of ceiling fall in, and my bathroom sprung a leak in the bathroom ceiling but other than that, it seems as if Chiang Mai has not suffered much. 

It was a very scary few minutes whilst the building shook. It is quite an old building so you are never sure how it is going to cope. 

I left Bangkok just two days ago. The footage from there and reports from Myanmar are terrible. 

[Keithambrose]

10 hours ago, Moses said:

You are racist.

And the Chinese built the Great Wall, which has been standing for thousands of years. And their Wild Goose Pagoda has survived hundreds of earthquakes.

And only idiots shout at every corner about the reasons for the destruction of an unfinished building, without understanding anything about construction or earthquakes. And less than half a day after the event. Hysterical squirrels.

Are you familiar with the words "load-bearing structures", "strength gain period", "core of a high-rise building"? Are you aware that unfinished buildings do not have a design strength at all? And the strength of, for example, a building with a pre-stressed core can be 100, or even 1000 times higher than that of the same building, but in an unfinished state?

This is not like building houses with your grandchildren from blocks. "Expert"...

From 94 tallest buildings in World 52 are constructed by Chinese, 5 from Top-10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings 

Er, the great Wall is mostly rubble, and a lot of the parts you now visit are reconstructed.  

[captainmick]

There doesn’t appear to be much knowledge or common sense in the Department_Of_Agriculture.  It appears to be a “shitty, shoddy” Department that “cannot be trusted” and jumps to premature conclusions based on its racist prejudices.

[Patanawet]

On 3/28/2025 at 1:56 PM, Foolish said:

It's a strong 7.3 magnitude quake. Stay safe.

7.7 and shallow.

[Patanawet]

7 hours ago, PeterRS said:

The gospel according to @Department_Of_Agriculture. What a load of utter garbage! According to him we can soon expect to see most of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Qingdao, Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi'an, Hangzhou and hundreds of other Chinese cities lying in ruins.

The building company is 49% Chinese held.

[Patanawet]

On 3/28/2025 at 3:08 PM, bkkmfj2648 said:

Imagine swimming for your life in this rooftop pool in Bangkok?

and what about the condos that are directly underneath this rooftop swimming pool....

 

As I posted on another site, these spectacular waterfalls are deliberate.
Modern skyscrapers with rooftop pools are fitted with emergency sluices to quickly shed the pool of water.
The last thing they need is a huge mass of loose water shifting around.
A bit like a giant uncontrollable inverted pendulum atop a 35 story high building.
Presumably/hopefully, they would have some sort of grill to stop people being thrown out as well.
I got this info from Tim Newton's  TNT today channel with reliable daily Thailand news on YouTube.

 

 

[reader]

From The Nation

77 mild aftershocks reported

Continues with interactive video presentation

https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40048017

[Moses]

3 hours ago, Keithambrose said:

Er, the great Wall is mostly rubble, and a lot of the parts you now visit are reconstructed.  

How many buildings in EU you know from 5th century BC?

Parthenon in Greece is from that time...

[Keithambrose]

1 hour ago, Moses said:

How many buildings in EU you know from 5th century BC?

Parthenon in Greece is from that time...

• Qin Dynasty Unification:

  Around 220 BC, Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, ordered the unification and expansion of existing fortifications, connecting them into a single defensive system. 

• Dynastic Contributions:

  Successive dynasties, including the Han, Bei Wei, and Ming, continued to build, repair, and expand the wall system. 

• Ming Dynasty's Contribution:

  The Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) is credited with building the most recognizable sections of the Great Wall that we see today. 

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  See development  of wall. As stated Ming Dynasty, 14th to 17th century, built most of Wall seen today.

• The earliest walls, built by the Chu State in the 7th century BC, were made of rammed earth and stone. 

[vinapu]

3 hours ago, captainmick said:

There doesn’t appear to be much knowledge or common sense in the Department_Of_Agriculture.  It appears to be a “shitty, shoddy” Department that “cannot be trusted” and jumps to premature conclusions based on its racist prejudices.

this is what one can expect from Trumpist administration

[KeepItReal]

Clearly a new building, even if still under construction, should not collapse like that. I am sure quite a few questions will be asked and building inspectors will be out in force the next few months. I've always been concerned that the building code in my home country is lax and spends too much time/bureaucracy focusing on cosmetic stuff instead of substance. 

 

[10tazione]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Mercalli_intensity_scale

[Min]

On 3/29/2025 at 3:59 AM, Moses said:

And only idiots shout at every corner about the reasons for the destruction of an unfinished building, without understanding anything about construction or earthquakes. And less than half a day after the event. Hysterical squirrels.

Are you familiar with the words "load-bearing structures", "strength gain period", "core of a high-rise building"? Are you aware that unfinished buildings do not have a design strength at all? And the strength of, for example, a building with a pre-stressed core can be 100, or even 1000 times higher than that of the same building, but in an unfinished state?

This is not like building houses with your grandchildren from blocks. "Expert"...

To be fair, that building, even in its unfinished state, should not have been collapsed, according to an expert.

 

Link to full article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/world/asia/earthquake-bangkok-building-safety.html

 

[Moses]

CR10EG is a part of China Railway Group, #256 of 2000 largest companies in World.

https://www.forbes.com/lists/global2000/

[Foolish]

I was checking out some of the hotels around silom on how safe they are. These are some of the response. Seems like croom is the most reassuring 🤭

 

[Min]

Something fishy is going on here. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/4-chinese-men-try-to-remove-documents-from-collapsed-bangkok-site-detained-8050691/amp/1