(28 Mar 2025)
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Bangkok, Thailand – 28 March 2025
1. Wide of people sitting on side of the road
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Panthita Udomdej, resident:
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"Life insurance? (laughs) You’re supposed to buy one if you think you’re going to die soon. It’s a good time to buy one."
UPSOUND reporter: "Can you tell us what you saw or what you felt?"
"So I thought I was fainting because everything suddenly shaking, just a little bit, then you feel harder, I was turning to my boss and I was like, ‘Do you feel the same thing?’ and she’s like ‘yeah.’ I thought it was just me, then the light just started to fall off on the floor, on the ground, and we ran down to the building, from the 25th floor. Can you imagine that? Don’t come to Thailand. (laughs)"
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Chotisa Chaiyanboon, Voranoot Thirawat, Thanapol Binraman (from left to right):
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UPSOUND reporter: "Have you ever experienced an earthquake like this in Bangkok?"
Binraman: "No, there has been no earthquake like this."
Thirawat: "There is like but we cannot really feel. This one is like extra, the first time (inaudible)
Binraman: "Yeah everything that we can see, everything was moving."
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STORYLINE:
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Thailand and neighboring Myanmar midday on Friday, killing at least three people in Bangkok and burying dozens when a high-rise building under construction collapsed, and prompting Myanmar to declare a widespread state of emergency.
The midday temblor with an epicenter near Mandalay, Myanmar’s second largest city, was followed by a strong 6.4 magnitude aftershock.
The greater Bangkok area is home to more than 17 million people, many of whom live in high-rise apartments. While the epicenter was in Myanmar, the area is generally sparsely populated, and most houses are low-rise structures.
One person who felt the tremors in Bangkok said she thought she was "fainting because everything [was] suddently shaking."
"I thought it was just me, then the light just started to fall off on the floor, on the ground, and we ran down to the building, from the 25th floor," she told The Associated Press.
Myanmar’s military-run government declared a state of emergency in six regions and states, including the capital Naypyitaw and Mandalay, but with the country in the midst of a prolonged bloody civil war, it was not clear how help would get to many regions.
The Red Cross said downed power lines are adding to challenges for their teams trying to reach Mandalay and Sagaing regions and southern Shan state.
“Initial reports from the ground suggest the earthquake has caused significant damage,” the Red Cross said. “Information on humanitarian needs is still being gathered.”
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