Tourists in Thailand could not believe their eyes if a powerful earthquake shook their hotel, which caused huge waves in an overflow swimming pool while swimmers held up on the wall in an attempt to drive out the violent vibrations.
A British man is heard that he shouts 'what the f ** k' while the water swells around a swimmer and over the floor of the Sundercck on the roof.
The people in the pool are in a dangerous position as the waves become more and more violent, leaving sun beds while terrified holiday makers left the edge.
More dramatic video shows a swimming pool on top of a luxury apartment that is shaken by the earthquake while a young family looks in horror.
The family, reportedly to be Korean tourists, shelter with their young child as huge waves against the windows and over the ledge from the overflow swimming pool.
Other images show water that are from the high glass skyscrapers that were rattled by the power of the earthquake.
The scale of the earthquake of 7.7 Magnitude that hit Myanmar and Thailand, and the destruction it caused is uncovered in shocking images of the disaster.
Several videos are spread with swimming pools on top of high -rise buildings in Bangkok that are emptied while the earthquake beat water out and on the street below.
Millions of people hurried to get out of buildings while the earthquake touched the Thai capital, with dramatic images with panicky locals and tourists who screamed while they pushed past each other to get out of a shopping center in the city.
The vibrations forced the suspension of a few metro and light rail services in the city, showing video that Bangkok's famous Skytrain fluctuates violently while shoes grasp each other.
A swimmer approaches himself for a dear life when an overflow swimming pool was converted into a wave pool by the vibrations
Water washes over the Sundeck while shocked tourists watch
A British man hears screaming 'what the f ** k' when the water swells
Huge waves washed over the side of an overflow swimming pool in Bangkok when the earthquake struck
Watercascades from a swimming pool on the roof in Bangkok while the earthquake struck
People sprint to get to safety when the earthquake struck Bangkok
Dramatic images with panicked locals and tourists shout while they pushed past each other to get out of a shopping center
Shoppers flowed out of the shopping center in Bangkok while the earthquake struck
More shocking video has shown the moment when employees fled when a building collapsed under construction, dozens under the rubble of the rubble and at least three people killed.
Anxiety images shows the moment when employees run their lives from the construction site while the apartment block is collapsing behind them and sends a huge cloud of dust and debris in the air.
The US Geological Survey and the GFZ center of Germany for Geosciences said that the earthquake hit a shallow 6.2 miles under the surface, before a second earthquake, with a size of 6.4, the area shook 12 minutes later.
The power of the vibrations ensured that a mosque in the city of Mandalay, close to the epicenter of the earthquake, collapsed, killed at least ten worshipers.
Civil servants in a large hospital in the capital of Myanmar Nayyidaw have declared a 'mass -victim area', with the death toll in the country that would be expected to rise after buildings were overthrown and debris was sent.
Large parts of neighboring Thailand also felt the earthquake, with a state of emergency in the capital of the country, which is home to more than 17 million people, many of whom live in high -rise apartments.
At least one person was killed and dozens of employees saved from under the rubble of the skyscraper, said the National Institute of Emergency Medicine of Thailand. Local media have reported that around 43 employees were missing after the collapse.
Alarms went into buildings when the earthquake struck around 1.30 pm local time and shocked residents were evacuated by stairs of high -rise buildings and hotels in densely central Bangkok Central.
They stayed on the street, looking for shadow of the afternoon sun in the minutes after the earthquake.
Employees were slowly running away from the building when it started to fall when the vibrations shake the Thai capital
Frightening visual material shows the moment an apartment block under construction in Bangkok collapsed
A huge dust cloud burst out when the building collapsed on the ground and fled debris
Employees fled for fear when the building made way after they were shaken by the power of the earthquake
The earthquake was powerful enough to control water from swimming pools, somewhat high above the street in high -rise buildings, while the tremor shook
Rescuers work at the location of a collapsed building after the vibrations of a strong earthquake that struck Central Myanmar
View of a collapsed building after the strong earthquake Centraal Myanmar had become
Employees help an injured man after a strong earthquake that was hit on Friday Centraal Myanmar, said earthquake monitoring services
Raising employees are seen on the site of a collapsed building in Central Myanmar
Panic residents are outside an office building in Bangkok after the earthquake
The earthquake was powerful enough to control water from swimming pools, somewhat high above the street in high -rise buildings, while the Tremor shook.
Witnesses in Bangkok said that people ran into the street in a panic, many of them hotel guests in bathrobes and swimming costumes while water flowed out of a raised swimming pool in a luxury hotel.
“Suddenly the entire building started to move, there was shouts and a lot of panic,” said Fraser Morton, a tourist from Scotland, who was in one of the many shopping centers of Bangkok in front of camera equipment.
“At first I started walking calmly, but then the building really started to move, yes, a lot of shouting, a lot of panic, people who ran the wrong way through the escalators, banging and crashing in the shopping center.”
Just like thousands of others in the center of Bangkok, Morton sought refuge in Benjasiri Park – away from the tall buildings around.
“I went outside and then looked up to the building and the entire building moved, dust and debris, it was pretty intense,” he said. “A lot of chaos.”
The earthquake met Myanmar as it is in the handles of a civil war.
In a general hospital of 1,000 beds in the capital of the country, rows were treated outside the Emergency Department, some wriggled with pain, others were still while family members tried to comfort them.
In Mandalay, the second largest city in the country and close to the epicenter, the earthquake damaged part of the former Royal Palace and buildings, according to videos and photos released on Facebook Social Media.
Although the area is prone to earthquakes, it is generally sparsely populated and most houses are low -rise structures.
In the Sagaing region just southwest of Mandalay, a 90-year-old bridge collapsed, and some parts of the highway that connect Mandalay and the largest city in Myanmar, Yangon, were also damaged.
In Nijypyitaw, the earthquake damaged religious shrines, causing parts that are shifted to the ground, and some houses.
A high -rise apartment was so violently shaken that swimming pool water flowed along the side
People hug each other after the enormous vibrations that shake buildings in Bangkok
People stand on a street after a strong earthquake that had become central Myanmar on Friday, said earthquake monitoring services, who also met Bangkok with hundreds of people who panic from buildings in the Thai capital after the vibrations
People evacuate an office building in Bangkok after the earthquake, with workers, residents and tourists who ran into the street
The earthquake damaged buildings in Bangkok and forced the suspension of a few metro and light rail services in the city.
Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinatra said on Friday that she had interrupted an official visit to the southern island of Phuket to hold an 'urgent meeting' after the earthquake, according to a post on X.
According to Beijing's Quake Agency, which said the shock 7.9 was measured in size in the province of Yunnan in China.
Earthquakes are relatively common in Myanmar, where six strong earthquakes of 7.0 Magnitude or more affected between 1930 and 1956 near the Sagaing error, which according to the USGS runs from north to south through the center of the country.
A powerful earthquake of 6.8 magnitude in the old capital Bagan in Central Myanmar killed three people in 2016, also to overthrow towers and crumbling temple walls on the tourist destination.
The breakneck pace of development in the cities of Myanmar, combined with crumbling infrastructure and poor urban design planning, has also made the most populated areas of the country vulnerable to earthquakes and other disasters, experts say.
The impoverished Southeast -Asian nation has a tense medical system, especially in its rural states.
