Pai in Mae Hong Son Jolted by Magnitude 3.4 Earthquake
The residents of Pai district in Mae Hong Son province on Wednesday felt tremors as a series of minor earthquakes occurred.
The residents of Pai district in Mae Hong Son province on Wednesday felt tremors as a series of minor earthquakes occurred.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 at a depth of 2 kilometers struck the district of Pai in Mae Hong Son province, causing tremors felt in four provinces.
An earthquake with 4.5 magnitude occurred in Phisanulok after midnight, felt in surrounding provinces including Phichit where a temple found cracks in an ancient ordination hall.
Thailand’s Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team will return home on Feb 18 after the mission in earthquake-hit Türkiye, said deputy interior minister Narit Khamnurak.
The Thai government yesterday sent a team of 42 rescue workers and two sniffer dogs to help the search and rescue operations in earthquake-hit Türkiye .
An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale in Doi Saket district of Chiang Mai shook people in Chiang Mai, Lamphun and Phayao provinces.
The Department of Mineral Resources said that an earthquake occurred in the Shan State of Myanmar at 12.07am about 87 kilometers from Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province. It resulted from the movement of the Wan Ha fault and was felt in many provinces in the upper North.
The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation and the Meteorological Department have confirmed that their tsunami warning system remained effective despite damaged tsunami-warming buoys.
Officials are closely monitoring earthquakes near the Andaman Islands off India as about 30 tremors happened there, about 400-500 kilometers from Phuket province, over the past two days.
Authorities in Phuket insist its tsunami-warning system remains operative and is tested on Wednesdays.
Damages from a strong earthquake, centered in northwestern Laos were reported in Thailand’s border province of Nan.
Multiple minor tremors jolted Wang Nua district of Thailand’s northern Lampang province on Wednesday, damaging several houses and office with no reports of fatalities or injuries