chang35baht Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 (edited) I wanted to ask any of you guys in the Chiang Rai province if you had any damage to your property as a result of the earthquake, but the topic was closed. So, have any of you guys in the Chiang Rai province had any damage to your property as a result of the earthquake? I was downstairs talking to my daughter. She thought it was me jokingly shaking the sofa she was lying down on. Felt my house shake more than I thought it could take but fortunately no damage. hope you guys also have no damage. Pretty scary for a first experience. C35b Edited May 16, 2007 by chang35baht Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chang35baht Posted May 16, 2007 Author Share Posted May 16, 2007 P.S. no offence Wolfie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 P.S. no offence Wolfie. None taken, but as i said to one of the members who PM'd me directly theres no point having lots of different threads open on the earthquake spread around 3-4 different forums, so i closed all bar one, which was moved into General to make it area non-specific. I'll let this one ride, as your asking about effects of the quake in your local area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumbojumbo Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Here is the quake and rated 6.1 and not too far from here. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recent...s/10/100_20.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayto Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Hope nobody had any damage done. It was definitly a big one and everybody in the city felt it. Hope it's not going to be repeated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumbojumbo Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I know we can't talk bad about our superiors (forum rules) , but i hope the next time that local natural major happenings don't get dumped into the General forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayto Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I know we can't talk bad about our superiors (forum rules) , but i hope the next time that local naturalmajor happenings don't get dumped into the General forum. Here, here. Locals rule ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chownah Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 My house is concrete post and beam on the first floor and wood framed above.....the wood framing swayed quite a bit but seems to be fine. I'll have to see if all the windows still open and close properly but so far the ones I've closed this evening as part of my usual routine seemed fine. This quake did cause some superficial cracks in the block infill between the concrete columns but since these are not structural it doesn't matter so long as the walls don't crumble and they won't.....perhaps sometime in the far future I can point to these small cracks and tell the kids how gramps survived the quake of 'ought seven'. Chownah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneeyedJohn Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Thanks Chang35Baht for bringing it up....it was significant ! It happened at 4 o'clock on the dot , and I was sitting in an armchair ground floor, and fully expected the walls and ceiling to collapse. I was ready to dash out of the house just as it stopped. No immediate apparent damage but I'm sure cracks will appear later. My wife was in the local market and the lady sellers went apeshit running away and nearly toppling my wife in the process. The worst and most scary earthquake experience of my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbk Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I know we can't talk bad about our superiors (forum rules) , but i hope the next time that local naturalmajor happenings don't get dumped into the General forum. You are wrong, you can discuss forum rules, however, you can't discuss moderator actions in the open forum however. Wolfie gave a perfectly reasonable explanation. Next time you have an issue, bring it up with admin, not in the forum. Back to the topic at hand: earthquake damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceadugenga Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Never heard a squeak. If it was 4pm I was getting the day's first Leo out of the fridge, concentration already totally focussed. But then, the majestic bulk of the mighty sceadugenga very likely stabilizes the surrounding area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goski Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Anyhow, trodding on the thin line of not talking about the earthquake (because it's a no no) but the damage it has done (because that' local, the earthquake wasn't.....) I'm more or less overwhelmed to the extent I feel that I'm in a poor Ben Affleck movie... oh, but hey, does anyone have a damage report from the epicenter in Laos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chang35baht Posted May 17, 2007 Author Share Posted May 17, 2007 There was another little tremor around 8pm last night as we were watching football, Thai vs Jeen.Thai won 1-0. I felt the earth move as we were lying in bed watching. First time te earth moved in my bed for quite a while. We decided to go outside for 10 minutes or so just in case there were more. What is exactly the correct actions to take at these moments? hopefully not the same as we saw on tv where the Thai`s who had evacuated hi-rise buildings decided to take shelter directly underneath the buildings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 What is exactly the correct actions to take at these moments? I'll refer you to the distasteful, dirty thread in general for the answer to that, if you can bring yourself to leave your local forum, that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 I know we can't talk bad about our superiors (forum rules) , but i hope the next time that local naturalmajor happenings don't get dumped into the General forum. because of course, the earthquake was only felt in Chiang Rai and not the rest of Thailand, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfmanjack Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 I know we can't talk bad about our superiors (forum rules) , but i hope the next time that local naturalmajor happenings don't get dumped into the General forum. because of course, the earthquake was only felt in Chiang Rai and not the rest of Thailand, right? My friend that lives in Sankhamphaeng felt it. I live in Hong Dong and did not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domyamkung Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 I know we can't talk bad about our superiors (forum rules) , but i hope the next time that local naturalmajor happenings don't get dumped into the General forum. because of course, the earthquake was only felt in Chiang Rai and not the rest of Thailand, right? My friend that lives in Sankhamphaeng felt it. I live in Hong Dong and did not. The earthquake came from Laos near Chiang Rai and was felt in Bangkok and other places so don't go shooting the messenger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Barlow Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 My house had damage - a piece of roofing between car-port and house, more soldered than welded I sullose, fell down. Worst damage I know of! no, not so. ancient ruins in Chiang Saen - even off of Wat Pasak jedi itself bricks fell down! but damage is done here on CR thread. I didn't find it quite the same viewing posts from BKK... (and someone in a bar brought up an old controversy about a question on pet hospitals being moved to national context)... but here's a real earthquake - the baht slid today!!! wow. economic reality? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villagefarang Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 Wife and I went through the same thing in Hawaii just last year. We immediately knew what was happening and just looked at each-other in disbelief. This couldn't be happening again, so soon, and here of all places. From what I have read the big one in 2004 loosened things up and we may be in for some more shakin. My latest blog entry is about our experience. village farang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soap Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 (edited) A 5.3-magnitude earthquake jolted border areas in Chiang Rai in the early hours of yesterday but no injuries or structural damage was reported. The epicentre of the quake, measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, was in Burma, some 90 kilometres to the north of Chiang Rai, according to the Meteorological Department which detected the quake at 12.21am yesterday. Source: Bangkok Post. Please continue here for the rest of the article. Edited June 9, 2007 by sbk first two sentences and a link to all Bangkok Post stories only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbk Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 A 5.3-magnitude earthquake jolted border areas in Chiang Rai in the early hours of yesterday but no injuries or structural damage was reported. The epicentre of the quake, measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, was in Burma, some 90 kilometres to the north of Chiang Rai, according to the Meteorological Department which detected the quake at 12.21am yesterday. Source? Please post a link to your source, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayto Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 This is the only one I have heard about. Where did you get this information, Soap. source http://tsunami.geo.ed.ac.uk/local-bin/quak...pt/demo_run.pl# Earthquake Details Magnitude 4.5 Date-Time Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 17:21:10 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Friday, June 8, 2007 at 12:21:10 AM = local time at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 20.421°N, 100.875°E Depth 20.6 km (12.8 miles) (poorly constrained) Region LAOS Distances 125 km (75 miles) ENE of Chiang Rai, Thailand 150 km (90 miles) WNW of Louangphrabang, Laos 325 km (205 miles) NW of VIENTIANE, Laos 740 km (460 miles) N of BANGKOK, Thailand Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 9.7 km (6.0 miles); depth +/- 31.2 km (19.4 miles) Parameters Nst= 25, Nph= 25, Dmin=269.4 km, Rmss=0.89 sec, Gp= 83°, M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=R Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayto Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 Found it http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/09Jun2007_news16.php Funny no word about it on the www. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverhawk_usa Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 (edited) Earthquake DetailsMagnitude 4.5 # Date-Time Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 17:21:10 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time # Friday, June 8, 2007 at 12:21:10 AM = local time at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 20.421°N, 100.875°E Depth 20.6 km (12.8 miles) (poorly constrained) Region LAOS Distances 125 km (75 miles) ENE of Chiang Rai, Thailand 150 km (90 miles) WNW of Louangphrabang, Laos 325 km (205 miles) NW of VIENTIANE, Laos 740 km (460 miles) N of BANGKOK, Thailand Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 9.7 km (6.0 miles); depth +/- 31.2 km (19.4 miles) Parameters Nst= 25, Nph= 25, Dmin=269.4 km, Rmss=0.89 sec, Gp= 83°, M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=R Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) Event ID us2007dhbk http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recent.../us2007dhbk.php Check the above site. It is amazing how many earthquakes around the world there are on almost a daily basis. Although the newpapers are saying it was situated in Burma, it was clearly in Laos. If you plot the coordinates on Google Earth the new quake was only about 17km southeast of the last large quake. Edited June 9, 2007 by silverhawk_usa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsys Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Chiang Kham - 100km from CR. I sustained major damage of the worst kind. While I was in CR shopping in BigC the earth quake happened. When we ruturned my last bottle of 25yr old Port Ellen single malt had fallen off the top shelf and smashed. Irreplaceable as the distillary is now closed. I did cut my mouth lying on the floor lapping the wastage up. oh the house and other stuff was fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbk Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Chiang Kham - 100km from CR. I sustained major damage of the worst kind. While I was in CR shopping in BigC the earth quake happened. When we ruturned my last bottle of 25yr old Port Ellen single malt had fallen off the top shelf and smashed. Irreplaceable as the distillary is now closed. I did cut my mouth lying on the floor lapping the wastage up.oh the house and other stuff was fine. Our sympathies. Hope you didn't hurt yourself too badly there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toybits Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 Another Earthquake this afternoon (15:20 h) 23 June 2007. Quite strong here at Tha Sai sub-district of Muang Chiang Rai. Guesstimating at about 4 to 5 richter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsetBkk Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 Hope nobody had any damage done.It was definitly a big one and everybody in the city felt it. Hope it's not going to be repeated. It was... today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayto Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 If you check the date that posting was about an earthquake last month, May. The other post is about today's earthquake. We seem to be getting quite a few of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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