Major earthquake in Myanmar, also affecting Thailand and parts of China

[ucbalumnus]

@great_lakes_mom

It is odd however, as nothing else collapsed in BKK, other construction projects included, though there may be a great deal of structural damage to be discovered. Bangkok is not considered to be especially seismically active, though Myanmar, sitting at the juncture of several tectonic places, certainly is.

Myanmar earthquake: What caused it and why did it make a building in Bangkok collapse? has some information about why the earthquake produced a lot of shaking 1,000 km away in Bangkok, and that “Prior to 2009, Bangkok did not have a comprehensive safety standard for constructing buildings to withstand earthquakes, according to Dr Christian Málaga-Chuquitaype, a senior lecturer in earthquake engineering at Imperial College London.”