British tourists who were overtaken in the terrifying earthquake disaster in Thailand described how they 'shouted and panicked' while the earthquake struck and compared the devastating aftermath with a 'war zone'.
It comes when thousands are feared death, stated with a state of emergency after the enormous earthquake of 7.7 Magnitude hit Thailand and Myanmar this morning.
The shallow Tremor hit Central Myanmar on 13.20 local time (6.50 GMT) and was followed minutes later by a after -shock of 6.4 magnitude.
Civil servants in a large hospital in the capital of Myanmar, Nayyidaw, declared it 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 tower block apartments.
Cool reports from survivors in Bangkok describe how people screamed of fear and ran for their lives when high -rise buildings started to shake.
Virgin radio presenter Steve Denyer, who was on the 19th floor of a 60-storey building, told Times Radio: “This is the scariest thing ever happened to me.”
'It was exactly like being on a cruise ship in a big storm and you wave and lose your balance and you can hear everything cracking.
Employees were slowly running away from the building when it started to fall when the vibrations shake the Thai capital
Virgin radio presenter Steve Denyer, who was on the 19th floor of a high-rise building, told Times Radio: “This is the scariest thing ever happened to me.”
Rescuers work at the location of a collapsed building after the vibrations of a strong earthquake that struck Central Myanmar
Paul Vincent, a tourists who visited from England, was in a Statenbar when the earthquake struck. “The following, everyone came on the street, so there was a lot of shouting and panic, which clearly made it much worse,” he said
“I think the most alarming was that things hear from above you crashing from above you.”
Denyer was about to have afternoon tea when 'the almighty crashes' that came out of the floors, felt 'disoriented and dizzy'.
“It took about 10 or 15 seconds for people to really worry and the staff were panicking, someone cried,” he said.
“We were led to a stairwell over about 19 floors in the air and walked down, but we could hear Crashes, the stairwell was also waving.”
In the meantime, Paul Vincent, a tourist who visits from England, had been in a street bar when the earthquake struck.
“The following, everyone came on the street, so there was a lot of shouting and in panic, which clearly made it much worse,” he said.
When he took to the streets, he said he saw a high -rise building waving and water falling from a swimming pool on the roof.
“When I saw the building, oh my God, that's when it touched me,” he said.
The worried mother of a young British expat who lives in Bangkok with his fiancé, said that the scenes that her son had described “sounded like a war zone” with “people walking around with suitcases in a haze.”
PR consultant Jaine Brent said to the Express: 'My son was in the office to talk to a colleague when his legs suddenly became funny and he had to sit down. Then the same thing happened to his colleague and started screaming people in his office.
'Cracks began to appear in the building and the vibrating. Everyone ran out of the building. Some construction sites have completely collapsed. '
Rescue workers walk past ruins from a construction site after a building collapsed in Bangkok on March 28, 2025 in Bangkok
Employees running away from a building while it collapses on a construction site in Bangkok, after an earthquake on March 28, 2025
“People were crying on the street and the panic was really terrible.”
Another British tourist on vacation in Bangkok said that she initially thought that the vibrations from an earthquake that struck the region were the effects of the film she watched.
Mandy Tang, 38, from London, was on holiday in a cinema in Bangkok when she experienced the vibrations of the powerful earthquake.
She said: 'I watched a movie called the Red Envelope. It happened to be a pretty campaign scene when the shake happened, so I initially thought it could have been the IMAX effect.
“I looked around and none of the local audience left their seats. My Taiwanese friend, however, stated that it was an earthquake, so I walked out of the theater with her and we met the guards who came to evacuate us just outside the theater.
“We could see that the doors opened and locked, all seats shake.”
Describing their horrible test to the Echo Simon Swann, 56, said: “The tiles began to fall off the bathroom walls and started the bed and furniture through the room. Displayed: Simon and Linda Swann, from New Brighton
Fraser Morton, a Scottish tourist in Bangkok when the earthquake struck, described 'a lot of screaming and a lot of panic'
Mrs Tang said she was trying to get a car back to her hotel and added: 'In short, I am tired and I try to come back.
'It was pretty nerve -racking, I have never experienced such a strong shake. It's pretty scary. '
Fraser Morton, a Scottish tourist in Bangkok when the earthquake struck, described 'a lot of screaming and a lot of panic'.
Morton was looking for camera equipment in a shopping center when 'suddenly the entire building started to move'.
He said: “I started to walk calmly at first, but then the building really started to move … Yes, a lot of shouting, a lot of panic, people who run the wrong way through the escalators, a lot of banging and crashing in the shopping center.”
Such as Morton thousands of people in Benjasiri Park flowed from nearby shopping centers, high rises and apartment buildings along the busy Sukhumvit Road of Bangkok.
The park was seen as an open space, safe for buildings in the area.
Calvin Verroe from the island of Wight, who is on holiday in Bangkok with his partner, said they were in the popular Terminal 21 -shopping center when the earthquake struck.
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
“I was in the basement then and I felt that I was getting dizzy. I looked up and noticed that all shop signals moved and told my partner that I thought we might have an earthquake.
“We left the store and people ran and shouted. We went outside through the fire with everyone who pushed and clambered and managed to lose my sunglasses in the commotion. '
“The most disturbing thing was when they look outside and watched huge skyscrapers,” he remembered.
Kelly Rhodes, a tourist from Kingston, London, who stays in the Okura Prestige in Bangkok, said that MailOnline Hotel -guests were evacuated down when the earthquake struck.
While airlines started to stop a few flights, she said, “We are now trying to organize flights, but it's chaos.”
“We can't leave the city. Traffic is a standstill of the total gridlock. '
Mrs Rhodes added: 'We saw a building with a swimming pool losing in waves, it was shocking.
“My legs didn't stop shaking for a few hours, but we had it easy compared to Myanmar!”
Panic residents are outside an office building in Bangkok after the earthquake
A survivor of earthquakes is worn while she is waiting to get medical help in a hospital in Nypyidaw, Myanmar on March 28
Simon and Linda Swann, from New Brighton arrived yesterday in the Thai capital and only checked for 17 hours in their hotel in their hotel.
Describing the horrible test for the Echo Mr Swann, 56, said: 'The tiles began to fall off the bathroom walls and started the bed and furniture through the room.
“My wife and I just grabbed and ran our things. It was incredibly frightening. I was not wearing top and no shoes, and we had these visions of the building.
'We ran just before the exit and ran 10 stairs. There were children screaming. There was rubble spread. '
Swann added how despite the fact that it was a firefighter for 30 years when the earthquake struck was the scariest moment of his life.
Professor Ian Main, personal chairman in Seismology and Rock Physics, School of Geosciences, at the University of Edinburgh said: 'The damage is probably very serious in the vicinity of the epicentre-based on the estimated intensity of land shaking above, and maps of population density and vulnerability of buildings.
The prediction loss of 'the USGS' pager is unfortunately probably in the Range 10,000-100,000 fatalities, “he said, referring to the earthquake impact report of the American Agency.
