A strong earthquake of 7.7 Magnitude has turned the Thai capital upside down, shaking high -rise buildings and collapsing an apartment block.
The US Geological Survey and the GFZ center of Germany for Geosciences said that according to the provisional reports on a shallow 6.2 miles, the incident was, with an epicenter in neighboring Myanmar.
The Greater Bangkok area is the home of more than 17 million people, many of whom live in high apartments.
Shocking video has shown that employees fled when a building under construction collapsed when it was shaken by the power of the earthquake.
Bangkok's police said that the number of possible victims was not yet known, while local media have reported that around 43 employees missed 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.
The epicenter of the earthquake was in Central Myanmar, 30 miles east of the city of Monywa.
There were no immediate reports of the effect of the earthquake in Myanmar, which is in the middle of a civil war.
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 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
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.
