(28 Mar 2025)
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Bangkok, Thailand – 28 March 2025
1. Various of crowds in park
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Fraser Morton, tourist:
"Yeah. So I was in this building right behind me. It was a shopping mall and I was there to buy camera equipment. And all of a sudden the whole building just began to move. Immediately there was screaming, there was a lot of panic. I just started walking calmly at first, but then the building started really moving. And yeah, a lot of screaming, a lot of panic. People running the wrong way down the escalators, like lots of banging and crashing inside the mall. I got outside and then looked up at the building, that one there, and this whole building was just moving. Dust and debris – it was pretty intense."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Vincent, tourist from England:
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"I was sitting in a bar and restaurant on Soi 22 off Sukhumvit, just talking to a stranger there, and the next thing, because it was a small bar, we just felt a movement, you know, there was no, there was no actual, nothing moving in the building. But the next thing, everybody came on the street. So there was a lot of screaming and panicking, which obviously made it a lot worse. I went on the street and I walked up and a building equivalent to this one here, was actually, you could see it compared to the next one, it was actually moving, it was swaying and all the water was coming from the top of the, yeah. And that’s when I, that’s when it got me, you know."
4. Wide of building shaking, with water from swimming pool dropping off the side
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Deborah Punmachet, American living in Bangkok for 28 years:
"I was in my La-Z-Boy and all of a sudden it moved back and forth. And then it toppled over and I hit my head on a table."
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Zsuzsanna Vari-Kovacs, Hungarian living in Bangkok:
"I was waiting for the bill and then suddenly I started feeling that the Earth is shaking. You know my first thought is that maybe somebody is not feeling it, it’s just me, something is wrong with me, but everybody was looking around. And right away we were all going outside because we could feel it was going to last for a while."
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STORYLINE:
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Thailand and neighboring Myanmar midday on Friday, causing the collapse of a high-rise building under construction in Bangkok and forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate from their homes and workplaces.
The midday temblor was followed by a strong 6.4 magnitude aftershock.
Possible casualties from the building collapse near Bangkok’s popular Chatuchak market are not yet known, police said, and there was no immediate information on how many workers were on the site at the time.
People in Bangkok evacuated from their buildings were cautioned to stay outside in case there were more aftershocks.
The U.S. Geological Survey and Germany’s GFZ center for geosciences said the earthquake was a shallow 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), with an epicenter in Myanmar, according to preliminary reports.
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