Isabelle Willis was at her apartment during the earthquake before things got "really bad".
BANGKOK: As Bangkok experienced tremors on March 28, a Korean man jumped across a broken sky walkway, 50 storeys above ground, to get from one swaying building to another where his wife and daughter were supposed to be.
Buildings are rising all over the city, emblems of economic growth. But an earthquake that sent one crashing to the ground has stirred fears about building safety.
In the Bangkok metropolitan area, home to more than 17.4 million people, search-and-rescue workers were focused on a collapsed high-rise building in the Chatuchak district of Bang
Four Chinese nationals have been detained in Bangkok for unlawfully entering the site of an 33-storey building that collapsed after the powerful earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday. This comes after the country’s Deputy PM Anutin Charnvirakul ordered an immediate inquiry into the building collapse,
Anxious loved ones waited outside a twisted mass of metal and concrete in the heart of Thailand’s capital on Saturday as rescuers searched for dozens of missing workers and the city confronted the aftermath of a rare and powerful earthquake that set skyscrapers swaying and rattled millions of residents.
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Shocking videos show Bangkok high-rises swaying during a 7.7 magnitude earthquake, with pool water spilling over.
The collapse of a 30-story building under construction was “not normal,” an engineering expert said. It was one of the biggest projects ever done by a Chinese state-owned company.
People waited anxiously outside buildings after a high-rise building under construction in Bangkok collapsed when a 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Thailand and neighboring Myanmar midday on Friday, police said,