Footage Of Surreal Bangkok Destruction After Myanmar Earthquake Grips The Internet

Myanmar earthquake: What caused it and why did it make a building in Bangkok collapse?

The size of the earthquake and the length of the fault line it occurred on contributed to the devastation.

Footage Of Surreal Bangkok Destruction After Myanmar Earthquake Grips The Internet

7.7 magnitude Myanmar earthquake causes buildings to collapse in Bangkok A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar early Friday morning and the quake, which is said to have occurred at a ‘shallow’ depth of just 6 miles below the surface which resulted in a great deal of surface shaking. 600 miles away in Bangkok, building were toppled and many have lost their lives. As of mid-day EST, there were already 144 confirmed deaths in Myanmar and 730 in…

'Last month I visited Bangkok - it's awful to see it destroyed by an earthquake'

The Mirror's Nada Farhoud visited Bangkok last month and was just streets away from where a tower block tumbled leaving over 80 construction workers buried under the rubble after a massive earthquake hit neihbouring Myanmar

Footage shows skyscraper collapse in Bangkok after major earthquake

The collapse was caused by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar this morning.

During Friday's earthquake in Myanmar, a high-rise building fell in Bangkok - about 1,000 kilometers from the epicenter. According to experts, it was caused by a combination of very strong tremors, the position of tectonic plates or soft soil.

The expert: “The Indian plate pushes with an oblique movement towards the North-Northeast. A movement that in the North has generated the Himalayan chain and in the East the mountain ranges of Myanmar”