7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand

https://twitter.com/TaraBull808/status/1905534938558157139

by testrun • 1 year ago

275 109 1 year ago

keepamovin3• 1 year ago

That is big. Praying the people are okay and safe from Tsunamis. The Netflix documentary about the Boxing Day 2004 disaster is excellent.

jksflkjl3jk32• 1 year ago

The epicenter was in the center of Myanmar, far from the ocean, so shouldn't be any risk of tsunamis. But starting to see some pictures. The fatalities are going to be a lot higher than being reported now.

keepamovin3• 1 year ago

That is very sad, at least there's no tsunamis to be thankful for. It would be so scary to be inside a building collapsing. Not the best way to go, and the rescue and rebuild is difficult.

belter• 1 year ago

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureI...

bayesianbot• 1 year ago

Felt it in Northern Thailand, I've lived through many earthquakes around here but this was on completely different level - usually I notice some open doors and hanging things shaking and can slightly feel it, but today I felt worried if my house is going to crash down and all my neighbors ran to the street. (our houses are built on ~1m stilts to protect from floods)

Sadly didn't receive a notification from Android this time, last time I got it about ten seconds before the shaking began.

t_mahmood• 1 year ago

Google turned it off after the mishap in Brazil, iirc.

sofixa• 1 year ago

The page is still up: https://crisisresponse.google/android-alerts/

And according to some Googling, they had only disabled it in Brazil while investigating why the false alarm happened.

Tostino• 1 year ago

Looks like they only disabled it in Brazil [1].

1. https://www.theverge.com/news/613572/google-earthquake-detec...

InDubioProRubio• 1 year ago

Is that even slightly proportional? One wrong warning- vs 1 right..

kayxspre• 1 year ago

I would at least expect a Cell Broadcast to be deployed (The TelCo Authorities/Providers and Disaster Management Authority has been testing it last year and expected to be deployed in Q2 2025). According to the press conference, the system can be activated, but it wasn't until 2:30 PM that the Disaster Management Authority decided to ask the TelCo to send SMS (not via Cell Broadcast). In my case, it wasn't until 7:40 PM that I received guidance from the authority.

Some people are claiming that they received alerts from other apps that target Thai people, such as gaming app, novel reading app and call screening app. Even the SNS account of online gambling site (illegal in Thailand) managed to provide guidance faster than the government's own response. Red Tapes on triggering the warning means no one was even sure what is going on, and has to resort for self-reporting or SNS.

darkhorn2• 1 year ago

Two years ago Turks didn't receive notifications either. I wonder what is not working in Android.

anticensor• 1 year ago

Turkey case was different and wilfully evil intentioned. They knowingly disabled base stations.

defrost2• 1 year ago

The video of a rooftop swimming pool waterfalling from a highrise building is wild ( https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c20d0nxr2lmo ).

Nothing compared to the high rise collapse though :/

Ayesh• 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Sagaing_earthquake

I'm in Hanoi, also about 1,000km from the epicenter (similar to Bangkok). Some people apparently felt tremors and building fixtures shaking, but nothing as serious as the videos I saw in Bangkok.

aaron695• 1 year ago

Given two buildings collapsing in the one video (in Mandalay) napkin math maybe thousand+ dead in Myanmar - https://x.com/cheguwera/status/1905541137504354763

redwood• 1 year ago

Mega quake centered on a major city in a developing economy state. Information is slow to come out because of the Junta no doubt but the death toll is likely to be far far larger then folks initially are reading.

So bizarre to see a lot more news coverage about places like Bangkok when the epicenter was on a large city in another country. But it's a reminder that information flows more slowly out of these closed societies

jksflkjl3jk32• 1 year ago

Bangkok has many tall buildings, so it was probably felt a lot more strongly here than other places closer to the epicenter. I was on the 32nd floor and saw and heard large cracks forming in the walls.. definitely a scary experience. They just let us back into the building, but not sure I'll stay here for a few days.

HiroProtagonist• 1 year ago

I’m glad you are ok. Stay safe!

decimalenough• 1 year ago

The quake was in northern Myanmar, so the major city (Yangon) in the south was apparently not too badly affected.

Early reports indicate significant damage in Naypyidaw, the new and thus not particularly large capital, and one spectacular but isolated construction site collapse in Bangkok, Thailand, quite far from the epicenter. I presume most of the damage will be in country towns near the epicenter, but Myanmar is dysfunctional at best of times and roiled by active civil war right now, so it'll take time for information to filter out.

alephnerd6• 1 year ago

the new and thus not particularly large capital

Naypyidaw (3rd largest city) has almost 1 million people now.

Furthermore, the epicenter was right outside Mandalay (2nd largest city), which has a population of almost 2 million.

In addition, the epicenter is also smack dab in the Central Lowlands, where much of Myanmar's population lives. Around 7-10 million people must live within 200 miles of the epicenter.

tonyhart7• 1 year ago

hope everyone is alright

ultimaweapon• 1 year ago

I'm living in Thailand for almost 40 years and this is the first time I have a nausea due to earthquake even it is very far from its origin. I can't imagine how much catastrophe the Myanmar has from this earthquake.

alephnerd6• 1 year ago

The tremors were felt all the way in Saigon and Delhi as well, so this was a fairly massive earthquake.

Hope everyone affected at ground zero in Saigang can get the help they need.

lordnacho• 1 year ago

I was wondering about the collapsed building in Thailand that was under construction.

Do civil engineers take precautions for under-construction buildings? Do they minimize the risk somehow? I'm guessing there's inevitably a window during which an earthquake would be catastrophic, even if the end product is earthquake resistant.

jeffbee4• 1 year ago

It doesn't seem like the state of being under construction would have been the problem. It's a reinforced, poured-in-place concrete building. It should be as strong in that state as it would ever have been. Suggests a design error.

lucianbr2• 1 year ago

It's not inevitable by any means. There's definitely a way to build buildings so that at any point they are as resistant to earthquakes as they will be at the end.

Actually I think it would take special effort to make it so it's vulnerable during construction but safe at the end.

For example, do you think the foundation of the building is somehow weaker during construction but gets stronger at the end? How could that possibly work?

catherd• 1 year ago

Concrete foundations get stronger as the concrete cures (around a month).

Framing is much more resistant to collapse once you put sheathing on it, a roof, etc. Before that it is easier to fall over.

A half built wood frame wall only supported at one end is like a wet noodle if you don't put in some temporary braces.

treis• 1 year ago

There's stuff like tuned mass dampers that reduce sway. The top floors would not necessarily be completely attached either. Can see them falling and taking out the lower levels with them.

hotep99• 1 year ago

Incredibly sad. The people of Myanmar were already suffering a terrible civil war.

v3ss0n12• 1 year ago

I am Myanmar and reporting from Bangkok.

I was upstairs, at third floor and was going down to have lunch and it shook whole house. At first I thought I am having nausea due to not having any food yet then thing starts to shake violently almost knocked me off stairs . And glasses started to rumble.

A construction in Pathunam collapsed.

Some house of friends of mine in Mandalay - Myanmar collapsed. One girl managed to get out in time.

One construction in Mandalay collapsed - 2 died.

Historic Mandalay Palace wall and entrance collapsed .

Airport in naypyitaw collapsed, there are report of many airport workers died.

Bridges collapsed, one of the longest standing historic bridges of Myanmar - Sagaing Bridge collapsed.

One other bridge in Mandalay brings down two cars with it, casualties unknown.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18bsATAEKS/

Many Junta gov buildings collapsed

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BYV644DmY/

baq5• 1 year ago

shakemap: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000pn9s...

Mandalay looks to be almost exactly in the center of the worst of it...

JumpCrisscross2• 1 year ago

It also appears to have gone through the heart of Tatmadaw territory [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_civil_war_(2021%E2%8...

brenainn• 1 year ago

and PAGER: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000pn9s...

dendrite9• 1 year ago

That straight line in the map doesn't look like the maps for any earthquakes I've felt. It looks like it was on the Sagaing Fault which is a different type of fault from the ones I've experienced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagaing_Fault

araes• 1 year ago

That shakemap looks really suspicious, relative to the damage being reported in Thailand, especially Bangkok. 600 miles away (~1000 km) and the shakemap's reporting numbers like 3 to 4 on the intensity scale. When they reported the skyscraper collapsing in Thailand, at first I thought it was Chiang Mai near the border of Myanmar, not Bangkok 600 miles away. For Americans, that's like the big one hits the Cali fault, and skyscrapers are falling down in Salt Lake City or Phoenix.

Wonder whether that's just automated simulation output, rather than actual measurements from stations? Numbers 3 and 4:

3 - Felt noticeably indoors, especially in tops of buildings, yet many do not even notice there's an earthquake.

4 - Felt indoors by many, felt outside by few. Sensation like heavy truck striking a building.

Bangkok's reporting sensations, crowd behavior, and events more like a 6 to 7. Everybody runs, furniture moves, plaster falls, considerable damage to poorly built (partially finished) structures. A 3-4 is like, you barely notice, or think a really heavy vehicle just crashed or something. Not, everybody in town runs in panic, describes all the ceilings collapsing, cracks in walls afterward. [1][2][3][4]

Expect there's probably going to be some re-evaluation of the magnitude and scale of the earthquake based on what was actually reported by observers, cameras, and damage afterward. They're reporting slight damage and cracks even in relatively well constructed buildings.

Edit: This story from ChannelNewsAsia in Singapore has camera footage from somebody on the ground near the skyscraper collapse. Visibly shaking the camera holder. [5]

[1] Intensity, Text Descriptions: https://sciencefest.indiana.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/m...

[2] Semi-common Cone Chart with Energy Comparison: https://basecampconnect.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/eartq...

[3] Japanese Chart with Pictures: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*Ca_yV0l_zkWiFtg...

[4] Another Picture Chart: https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/...

[5] ChannelNewsAsia, https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/massive-quake-kills-nea...

v3ss0n12• 1 year ago

Death toll in Mandalay 14 so far. A friend from Mandalay report that aftershock are still going on ( 3 hr later) . Her house is totally collapsed and she don't know where to stay. She managed to get out just in time , only injury she had was kettle fall on her legs.

v3ss0n12• 1 year ago

More videos from Mandalay

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=96191531281452...

v3ss0n12• 1 year ago

Compilation https://youtu.be/197HVsjdsGU?si=jhbLyvY3GTDu-tQK

dockerd2• 1 year ago

Another compilation - https://x.com/VertigoWarrior/status/1905613070636122443

ThePowerOfFuet• 1 year ago

Tracking-free link: Compilation https://youtu.be/197HVsjdsGU

v3ss0n12• 1 year ago

Death toll over 40 do far in Mandalay.

singularity2001• 1 year ago

distance from Mandalay to Bangkok: ~580 km

v3ss0n12• 1 year ago

Yeah quite strange that it effects here strong and looks like death toll gonna high here too. Huge construction collapse,80 construction workers missing.. from the video.. not many will survive and that's all happened in Bangkok

drclau• 1 year ago

According to Google Maps "measure distance" tool it's ~630 miles, or ~1000 km. I am very surprised it was felt so strongly at such a distance.

v3ss0n12• 1 year ago

Casualties rising so far Estimated to be thousands. People trapped inside collapsed building and calling for help .

https://www.reddit.com/r/myanmar/s/IlrSbGtqfV

https://www.reddit.com/r/myanmar/s/SrpgBsfO8l

spartanatreyu• 1 year ago

A construction in Pathunam collapsed.

Damn, I was staying in a hotel right next to there only 6 weeks ago.

I remember getting to the hotel and seeing warnings not to use the elevator in case of earthquakes.

woutr_be• 1 year ago

I’m in Bangkok right now, didn’t even think about it being an earthquake and thought my building was coming down. Sprinted out of the building, watching our rooftop pool collapse and rain down debris and water.

I think that’s the most scared I’ve ever been, thinking that was it for me.

koolba• 1 year ago

Sprinted out of the building, watching our rooftop pool collapse and rain down debris and water.

Drowning multiple floors above sea level due to an earth quake. That’s insane!

themaninthedark• 1 year ago

Video of building under construction collapse:

Close up: https://x.com/nongmeaw33/status/1905511502435791007

Distant: https://x.com/120119_/status/1905515797234991340

Towaway692• 1 year ago

Holy F2k. Hope nobody was seriously injured - as unlike as this hope may be.

It’s extremely surreal to be sitting in sun, half way around the world, drinking coffee and watching these images.

It’s amazing and frightening at the same time - the disconnect between the folks affected by this disaster and me scrolling around here at HN.

At the same, the immediacy of world events and the inability to actual do anything about them.

For many this was their last day and may their rest in peace, tomorrow could be ours. Once again nature shows us who is boss.

alephnerd6• 1 year ago

81 construction workers trapped and 3 passed away [0].

Sadly, hundreds of similar incidents happened across the border in Myanmar, as the epicenter is right outside of Myanmar's 2nd largest city.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0gr8gl0wo

s1artibartfast2• 1 year ago

the inability to actual do anything about them

That is called trained helplessness. You could be on a flight today if you want. You could be donating to relief in minutes without leaving your computer chair.

wiradikusuma• 1 year ago

The earthquake seemed to be originated from Myanmar, but most reporting from Thailand. Is it because they are affected less?

JumpCrisscross2• 1 year ago

but most reporting from Thailand

Myanmar is on the border between a failed state and one in civil war [1]. Put simply, we will probably never know the fatality county because there is nobody who can reliably do the counting.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_civil_war_(2021%E2%8...

macintux• 1 year ago

I was a little surprised to see the junta asking for outside assistance. I assumed they would be reluctant to let people in.

AlecSchueler• 1 year ago

Thailand is much more open in terms of media connections.

grotorea• 1 year ago

I think Thailand is much more integrated to the West in all sorts of ways. And Myanmar is deep into a civil war and that I assume reduces greatly the number of foreign journalists, foreigners in general, social media access, etc.

inkyoto2• 1 year ago

Burma/Myanmar has been largely ruled by the junta since 1962, with brief periods of semi-stability in between, and it has largely been isolated from the rest the world.

Up until mid-2000's, the entire country was reliant on a single – modem – internet connection to Singapore (the Singaporean government had a long history of propping up successions of military governments in Myanmar until China arrived on the scene).

jhanschoo• 1 year ago

Thailand is among the most developed states on continental SEA and accordingly, it's telecomms and media.

dockerd2• 1 year ago

https://x.com/VertigoWarrior/status/1905613070636122443

andsoitis• 1 year ago

More details from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/strong-earthquake...

yubblegum• 1 year ago

https://nitter.net/search?f=tweets&q=myanmar

animesh• 1 year ago

One of the craziest things - water falling out of the high rise building's roof top pool: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1jlpma0/...

germandiago• 1 year ago

I am living in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) Vietnam and today around one or so,a bit later, my wife was taking a nap and I was working in the computer. The building started to shake, I live in a tower.

I told my wife: it is an earthquake, did you notice? Look: I pointed to the frame of a door so that she could hold herself there to notice the shaking. Lean on it and do not move. She said: no, it is you. I turn back: look at the hanging lamp. The lamp was zig-zagging lol. Actually you can throw a nuclear bomb when my wife is taking a nap and she would continue sleeping. She is so insensitive for those things...

So when we went downstairs like 30 or 40 more people had also left their homes. It could also be noticed from Hanoi.

Here people noticed it in district 3, 10, Thu Duc, Binh Thanh and District 2 at least.

It was just replicas but hey, noticeable.

arminiusreturns• 1 year ago

I wonder if yesterdays geomagnetic solar storm has any correlation...

keepamovin3• 1 year ago

The largest coronal hole in years was streaming to Earth while the earthquake occurred. Link up of coronal hole with Earth’s geomagnetic system is associated with earthquakes. The storm was caused by charged particles from that stream.

verdverm• 1 year ago

https://bsky.app/search?q=earthquake

pclmulqdq• 1 year ago

It looks like the supply of hard drives is going to be a bit precarious for a while.

cc101• 1 year ago

It is important to realize that the greatest effect and harm of a major disaster is often the result, not of the shaking, but rather in the social unrest that results from a government's inability to cope with the disaster. Given Myanmar's problematic government, that may be the case here. If you want examples, consider the Managua earthquake that led to the overthrow of Somoza or the 1976 Tangshan earthquake which contributed to the cultural turmoil accompanying the death of Mao that led to the end of the Cultural Revolution.

7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand

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