Earthquake - Thailand, Province of Chiang Rai, Sai Khao [Phan District]

Earth Watch Report  -  Earthquakes

Pictured: Thailand earthquake splits road in two causing devastating damage to ground
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May 05 2014 01:44 PM

Earthquake

Thailand

Province of Chiang Rai, Sai Khao [Phan District]

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Earthquake in Thailand on Monday, 05 May, 2014 at 13:44 (01:44 PM) UTC.

Description A strong, shallow 6.0-magnitude earthquake rattled northern Thailand on Monday afternoon, geologists said, shaking tall buildings in Bangkok hundreds of miles to the south. The quake, at a shallow depth of 7.4 kilometers (4.5 miles), struck just after 6 pm local time (1100 GMT), around 27 kilometers (17 miles) from the mountainous northern city of Chiang Rai, the US Geological Survey said in a statement. There were no immediate reports of damage. The area is a remote mountain retreat popular with foreign tourists near to the border with Myanmar and Laos. The quake was felt as far south as Bangkok, 800 kilometers (500 miles) to the south, where tall buildings shook for several seconds. It was also felt in the Myanmar capital of Yangon, an AFP reporter there said. Major earthquakes are rare in Thailand, although tremors frequently strike the northern portion of the country.

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One dead, 23 injured in Thai quake: official

BANGKOK – An elderly woman died and 23 other people were injured after a strong earthquake shook northern Thailand, an official said on Tuesday, as aftershocks continued to rattle the mountainous region popular with tourists.
The 83-year-old woman died when a wall in her house collapsed after the 6.0-magnitude struck quake on Monday afternoon, according to an official at the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department in Bangkok.
"Twenty-three people were also injured in separate incidents caused by the quake," the official told AFP, without giving further details.
The quake, which struck at a shallow depth of just 7.4 kilometres, had its epicentre in the remote Phan district of Chiang Rai province, geologists said, and was felt hundreds of miles to the south in Bangkok and even in Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon.
"Since last evening (Monday) there were six large aftershocks with a magnitude between 5.0 to 5.9 and the last was this morning," Burin Wechbunthung, of the Meteorological Department said, adding there were a dozen smaller tremors.

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Tuesday, May 6 2014, 04:54 AM EDT

Thailand earthquake kills 1, injures several others

Posted By: Michele Wright, CBS 12 News Anchor
BANGKOK (AP) — Officials said Tuesday that one person was killed and several dozen were hurt in an earthquake that struck northern Thailand and Myanmar a day earlier, smashing windows, cracking walls and roads and damaging Buddhist temples.
The airport in Chiang Rai, a northern Thai city near the epicenter of the shallow magnitude 6.3 temblor, evacuated people from its terminal, where display signs and pieces of the ceiling fell. There was no damage to the runway or flight disruptions, airport General Manager Damrong Klongakara said.
A well-known temple near the city, the all-white Wat Rongkhun, was closed due to safety concerns after the earthquake.
"The spire of the main building came off and the tiles on the roof fell off," Chalermchai Kositpiphat, the artist who designed the temple, told Nation TV. "I still don't know how we can sleep tonight. ... It was shaking the whole time and then aftershocks followed four to five times."

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• Pictured: Thailand earthquake splits road in two causing devastating damage to ground
• May 06, 2014 13:57
• By John Sutton

No serious injuries have been reported so far after the magnitude-6.0 quake struck 6 miles south of Mae Lao shaking shops and causing cracks in buildings
These startling pictures show a road being torn apart by an earthquake in Thailand.
Luckily nobody was injured in the magnitude-6.0 quake, which struck 6 miles south of Mae Lao and 17 miles southwest of the town of Chiang Rai on Monday.
Tall buildings swayed in the Thai capital of Bangkok, 500 miles to the south. The quake also was felt in Yangon, the capital of neighboring Myanmar.
A Chiang Rai police officer said: "There has been minor damage to buildings in Chiang Rai itself, some shops have goods scattered about and we're seeing cracks in buildings.

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Flood - Myanmar (Burma), State of Karen, [Karen-wide]

Earth Watch Report  -  Flooding

• Image Credit: EPA
• A picture made available on 31 July 2013 shows a car submerged on a street outside an apartment building at a residential area in the Thai-Myanmar border district of Mae Sot, Tak province, northern Thailand, 30 July 2013.

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Flood

Myanmar (Burma)

State of Karen, [Karen-wide]

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Flood in Myanmar (Burma) on Wednesday, 31 July, 2013 at 13:52 (01:52 PM) UTC.

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Nearly 25,000 people have been evacuated to makeshift camps after floods ravaged eastern Myanmar, an official said Wednesday, as relief teams struggled to reach remote areas inundated by water. Flood waters have risen dramatically after several days of heavy rain in Karen State forcing thousands to flee to nearly 80 relief camps, Chum Hre, director of the social welfare, relief and resettlement department said. "Altogether 24,499 flood victims have been evacuated" in Karen State, he said, adding hundreds more had been displaced in Mon and Rakhine states. "It is very difficult to reach some of the disaster-hit places because of the bad weather and landslides," he said, adding that helicopters had been deployed.

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Flood in Myanmar (Burma) on Wednesday, 31 July, 2013 at 13:52 (01:52 PM) UTC.

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Updated:	Thursday, 01 August, 2013 at 03:42 UTC
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Nearly 25,000 people have been evacuated to makeshift camps after floods ravaged eastern Myanmar, an official said yesterday, as relief teams struggled to reach remote areas inundated by water. Floodwaters have risen dramatically after several days of heavy rain in Karen State, forcing thousands to flee to nearly 80 relief camps, Chum Hre, director of the social welfare, relief and resettlement department said. "Altogether 24,499 flood victims have been evacuated" in Karen State, he said, adding hundreds more had been displaced in Mon and Rakhine states. “It is very difficult to reach some of the disaster-hit places because of the bad weather and landslides,” he said, adding that helicopters had been deployed. Heavy rains also inundated areas across the border in Thailand. Seven Thai provinces remained flooded yesterday, the Interior Ministry said in its daily update. Three people have died since Monday after they were hit by trees felled by fast-moving water, it added. In Thailand’s western town of Mae Sot, which borders the flood-hit area of Myanmar, waters have receded in the town centre but remain high in outlying areas, especially near the frontier checkpoint. The situation has returned to normal in Mae Sot city,” Pramote Chantasri, of Mae Sot City Municipality said. “The worst was on Monday after four days of heavy rain in the mountains,” he said, adding the bridge between the two countries remains open. Parts of Thailand and Myanmar are inundated each year during the monsoon period, which ends in October. Deadly floods in 2011 left more than 800 dead in Thailand, inundating swathes of the country for months, deluging parts of the capital and taking a heavy toll on the country’s lucrative manufacturing industry.

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Myanmar floods force 25,000 into relief camps

Flood waters have risen dramatically after several days of heavy rain

• AFP
• Published: 13:19 July 31, 2013
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Yangon, Yangon division: Nearly 25,000 people have been evacuated to makeshift camps after floods ravaged eastern Myanmar, an official said on Wednesday, as relief teams struggled to reach remote areas inundated by water.

Flood waters have risen dramatically after several days of heavy rain in Karen State forcing thousands to flee to nearly 80 relief camps, Chum Hre, director of the social welfare, relief and resettlement department said.

“Altogether 24,499 flood victims have been evacuated” in Karen State, he said, adding hundreds more had been displaced in Mon and Rakhine states.

“It is very difficult to reach some of the disaster-hit places because of the bad weather and landslides,” he said, adding that helicopters had been deployed.

Heavy rains also inundated areas across the border in Thailand.

Seven Thai provinces remained flooded on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said in its daily update.

Three people have died since Monday after they were hit by trees felled by fast-moving water, it added.


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