Bangkok – Two violent earthquakes rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, which influenced the buildings of the Thai capital and causing evacuations across the city, as well as the neighboring Myanmar.
The US Geological Survey and the GFZ Center for Geosciences in Germany said that the first Midi Temblor to strike Bangkok was a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), with an epicenter in Myanmar, according to preliminary reports.
A second shaker, with a magnitude of 6.4, shook the area 12 minutes later.
Bangkok police said that a high -rise building in construction collapsed when the first earthquake struck. Possible losses are not yet known.
Police told the Associated Press that they responded to the scene near the popular market of Chatuchak in Bangkok, but they had no immediate information on the number of workers on the site at the time of collapse.
The water from the high -rise swimming pools in Bangkok turned to the side while shaking the first earthquake, and the debris fell many buildings.
There was no immediate victim report and Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra called an emergency meeting to assess the impact of the Temblors.
The Grand Bangkok region is home to more than 17 million people, many of whom live in high -rise apartments.
The alarms left in the buildings when the first earthquake struck around 1:30 p.m., and surprised residents were evacuated on the stairs of condominiums and high height hotels in the densely populated center of Bangkok.
They stayed in the streets, seeking shadow in the midday sun in the minutes that followed the earthquake.
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The Department of Disaster Prevention in Thailand said that the first earthquake was felt in almost all regions of the country.
The epicenter of the first earthquake was in the center of Myanmar, about 30 miles east of the city of Monywa.
In the capital, Naytyitaw, the earthquake damaged religious sanctuaries, sending pieces reversing to the ground and a few houses.
Other damage reports were not immediately available from the Myanmar, which is involved in a civil war.
