Tourists in Bangkok were left for their lives after swimming in the swimming pool of a skyscraper when a devastating earthquake struck.
Shocking images conquered when two people lounge in a swimming pool under the sun before a powerful earthquake of 7.7 Magnitude Thailand and Myanmar hit on Friday.
A man who stood by a lounger watched while the couple floating in the water, when the water suddenly started to shoot against the glass barrier.
While the water began to thrashy, the three tourists started to panic while trying to stable against the shaking building.
The couple in the swimming pool can be seen that they are thrown out of their float in the water while the man is sitting on the deck to grip on the wooden chair.
Waves of water walk out of the pool on the terrace area while the swimming pool water crashes against the glass and separates the tourists from the top of the city.
The couple desperately climb out of the swimming pool while the building vibrates and tries to run inside to shelter while the terrace is flooded.
They succeed in doing a happy escape, together with the other male tourist, while running the outside platform behind the sun loungers and back in the skyscraper.
Shocking images has emerged to let tourists from a skyscraper -infinity -pole clamber as an earthquake in Thailand
The three tourists saw scrambling for safety while the water was knocking around it
The building shook violently and sent swimming pool water that hits the glass barrier to the terrace area
One of the sun loungers was seen that was thrown over the building edge
A staff member can be seen at the end of the clip that hits them along the soaked floor behind them, while the blue lounger had just a few moments relaxing, is thrown over the side of the swimming pool.
The scale of the earthquake of 7.7 magnitude that hit Myanmar and Thailand on Friday, and the destruction it caused is uncovered in shocking images of the disaster.
Rescuers are still desperately looking for survivors More than three days after the devastating earthquake, with at least 1,700 people who were now death in Myanmar after what the greatest earthquake was to touch the country destroyed by war, the authorities say.
Experts fear that the exact death toll could take to confirm, but the United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimated that the last death toll could surpass 10,000 people.
Wide -spread damage was reported after the earthquake ensured that bridges and buildings came to fall in Bangkok, where authorities try to free dozens that are supposed to be trapped under the debris of a high -rise in the lower classes.
At least 18 people were killed in the Thai capital when the earthquake struck. Of these, 11 died when a building with substructure collapsed within a few minutes, leaving dozens of trapped under the rubble.
Seven fatalities were reported elsewhere in the capital, the authorities said.
Search and rescue operations are underway in Bangkok for about 80 people who remain missing, while families gathered at the location of the collapsed high-rise buildings for some news about their loved ones.
“I called my husband who has been caught in countless times. Probably 100 to 200 phone calls a day, but none of them continues, “Kannika Noommisri told Reuters.
A high -rise apartment was so violently shaken that swimming pool water flowed along the side
Rescuers work at the location of a collapsed building after the vibrations of a strong earthquake that struck Central Myanmar
Watercascades from a swimming pool on the roof in Bangkok while the earthquake struck
Panic residents are outside an office building in Bangkok after the earthquake
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.
Minister of Defense Phumham WeChahaachai no longer offered details about the continuous rescue efforts, but first responds said that seven people were saved so far outside the collapsed building.
Angst visual material shows the moment when employees ran their lives from the construction site while the apartment block collapses 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.
In Nijypyidaw, the military capital of the country 257 km south of Mandalay, a three -storey hospital partially collapsed, which catches patients under the rubble of the Chinese state media.
About 40 hours after the earthquake, the Chinese rescue team saved one person from the rubble.
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
Employees fled for fear when the building made way after they were shaken by the power of the earthquake
People sprint to get to safety when the earthquake struck Bangkok
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.
Alarms went into buildings when the earthquake struck the local time around 1.30 pm and shocked residents were evacuated by stairs of high -rise buildings and hotels in densely populated Central Bangkok.
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.”
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.
