Myanmar earthquake live updates: Magnitude 7.7 earthquake hits with strong tremors felt in Bangkok
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Yeah, USGS pagers are all read and the pictures coming out are not great, sadly
When you consider the epicenter, and the damage done in Bangkok, technically ALL of Myanmar is in the damage zone.
I'm seeing reports too that while Myanmar gets earthquakes, Thailand is not technically an earthquake zone, so their buildings aren't made with that in mind.
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I was just watching CNN and the one reporter claimed that in some areas they felt shaking for 3 to 4 minutes.
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I was just watching CNN and the one reporter claimed that in some areas they felt shaking for 3 to 4 minutes.
And a 6.4 aftershock 12 minutes after the first one...
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New fear unlocked: being splashed out of a rooftop infinity pool during an earthquake
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4gex01m7n5t?post=asset%3Ae00f93b6-71d2-4cd9-9fa6-9b2e4aaf4ad6#post
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Cracked open a rooftop swimming pool in Bangkok turning it into a waterfall(!)
Well not so much cracked open...just sloshing around like water in a tub and overflowing on the sides.
Still scary AF... imagine you being in that pool at that moment
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Well not so much cracked open...just sloshing around like water in a tub and overflowing on the sides.
Still scary AF... imagine you being in that pool at that moment2nd one!
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Full apartment blocks turned to rubble in less than 20 minutes at noon I really do hope most people were outside. Time to watch a crash course tectonic geology, and volcanism.
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I live in a similar nearby country where buildings are constructed cheaply with no oversight. Emergency services are effectively non-existent. Apartment buildings are touching, or are very close together with tiny alleyways to access them. Ambulances are blocked by traffic. None of the fire sprinklers are working. The fire department is only coming by to collect bribes once a year. The people don't see why they should care about something that isn't likely to happen. They don't worry about things they believe they can't control. When a building catches fire here, hundreds of people die. Families are fending for themselves.
Good luck friends.
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New fear unlocked: being splashed out of a rooftop infinity pool during an earthquake
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4gex01m7n5t?post=asset%3Ae00f93b6-71d2-4cd9-9fa6-9b2e4aaf4ad6#post
Or being crushed by thousands of gallons of water thrown out of a rooftop pool during an earthquake...
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Additional news and footage of Myanmar earthquake can be found in Myanmar community: https://lemmy.ca/post/41395929
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Headline keeps changing, I'm trying to keep it up to date.
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