2 Powerful Earthquakes Rock Thailand and Myanmar, causing the collapse of a skyscraper that is being built in Bangkok

Bangkok – Two violent earthquakes rocked southeastern Asia on Friday, causing buildings in Thai capital Bangkok to encourage and encourage evacuations across the city as well as in neighboring Myanmar.

The skyscraper under construction in Bangkok crashed when the first Temblor Hit said, said Police Bangkok. A state of emergency was declared in the city. The great hospital in Myanmar is described as a mass area of ​​accident. Trading was stopped on the stock exchange in Bangkok. India was willing to offer “all possible help” both countries, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The medical said that 43 workers were trapped at the site of the building with collapse, according to the French News Agency AFP, which said the structure would be 30 stories. The police told the associated press scene is near the popular Chatuchuchak market near Bangkok.

Several buildings were collapsed in Mandalaj, the second largest city of Myanmar, witnesses told News Agency Reuters.

The American geological survey and the German GFZ Center for Geoscince said that the first earthquake had size 7.7 and was on a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). Her epicenter was in Myanmar, according to preliminary reports.

The required size of 6,4 waves 12 minutes later.

High roof water on the roof in Bangkok Sloshed on the side as they shook off the first earthquake, and the debris fell from many buildings.

There were no immediate reports on victims and Prime Minister Paetongarn Shinawatra called urgent meetings to assess the impact of Temblor. He declared a state of emergency in the city.

The large area of ​​Bangkok is home more than 17 million people, many of which live in high apartments.

The alarms went out in buildings when the first earthquake hit around 13:30, and the inflammatory residents were evacuated by the stairs of high residential apartments and hotels in Gusto populated central Bangkok.

They stayed on the streets, looking for a shade from the midday sun in the minutes after the first earthquake, and warned to stay outside in the event that they were more after the consequence.

“Suddenly the whole building began to move, a lot of panic was immediately screamed,” said Fraser Morton, a tourist from Scotland, which was in one of the many cameras equipment.

“I just started walking quietly, but then the building began to really move, yes, a lot of screaming, a lot of panic, people who work the wrong stairs, a lot of blows and tears in the mall.”

Like thousands of others in the city center Bangkok, Morton was looking for a refuge in Benjasiri Park – away from tall buildings all around.

“I went outside and then looked at the building and the whole building moved, dust and debris, was quite intense,” he said. “Many chaos.”

Thailand’s disaster prevention department stated that the first earthquake felt in almost all regions of the country.

The epicenter of the first earthquake was in central Myanmar, about 30 miles east of the city of Monywa.

Myanmar is grabbed in the civil war.

Scenes of destruction in Myanmar

In Mandalay, which is near the epicenter of the first earthquake, the first damaged part of the former royal palace and buildings, according to videos and photos published on Facebook social media.

While the area is prone to earthquakes, it is generally rare inhabited, and most houses are low structures.

In the Sagaing region only southwest of Mandalay, a 90-year-old bridge was collapsed, and some parts of the highway connecting Mandalay and Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, are also damaged.

The inhabitants in Yangon rushed out of their homes when the earthquake hit the earthquake. There were no immediate reports of injuries or death.

In the capital of Naypyitaw, the earthquake damaged by religious shrines, sending parts that are passed on to the ground and some homes.

The AFP journalist team was at the National Museum in Naypyidaw when the first Temblor hit. The pieces fell from the ceiling as the building began to shake.

The nearby roads have pulled out.

The road to one of the largest hospitals of the city is stuck with traffic. The 1,000-bed hospital was the “mass area of ​​accident” after the earthquake, officials said. Rows of wounded were treated outside the emergency department.