A strong earthquake of 7.7 Magnitude has turned the Thai capital upside down, waving buildings.
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 the moment that a high -rise building under construction in Bangkok collapsed while it was shaken by the power of the earthquake.
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.
Panic residents are outside an office building in Bangkok after the earthquake
People hug each other after the enormous vibrations that shake buildings in Bangkok
There were no immediate reports of damage or victims.
The earthquake was powerful enough to control water from swimming pools, some high 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.
