A dramatic video circulated on social media showing the multi-storey building with a crane on top collapsing into a cloud of dust in Bangkok, while onlookers screamed and ran.
: Bangkok police say a high-rise building under construction collapsed when two violent earthquakes rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, causing buildings in the Thai capital to sway and prompting evacuations across the city, as well as in neighbouring Myanmar.
The US Geological Survey and Germany’s GFZ centre for geosciences said the midday 7.7 magnitude earthquake was a shallow 10 kilometres, with an epicentre in Myanmar, according to preliminary reports. A second quake, with a magnitude of 6.4, shook the area 12 minutes later. “All of a sudden the whole building began to move, immediately there was screaming and a lot of panic,” said Fraser Morton, a tourist from Scotland, who was in one of Bangkok’s many malls shopping for camera equipment.
The greater Bangkok area is home to more than 17 million people, many of whom live in high-rise apartments.
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