Easrthquake causes little damage in Myanmar and Thailand by Bob Cummins

     On Monday evening, a 6.0-magnitude temblor hit Northern Thailand and Myanmar.  No deaths have been reported, but damage was done.  Near the epicenter of the quake,  the airport of Chiang Rai had to evacuate its terminal which had some damage done to its roof and some of its display signs fell.  No one was hurt and no flights were disrupted, the runways not being damaged, according to airport General Manager Damrong Klongakara said.  Also in Chiang Rai, Wat Rongkhun, the Buddhist temple was closed because of safety concerns after the quake.  "The spire of the main building came off and the tiles on the roof fell off," said Chalermchai Kositpiphat.  "It was shaking the whole time and then aftershocks followed four or five times."  The head of a Buddha statue fell as well at Udomwaree Temple in the same area, according Phra Pathompong, a monk.  In Chiang Rai's Phan district, ceilings fell, according to Wander Radchompoo, the head of the district.  A damaged road was cracked in multiple.  The worst was a waist-high gash the length of about 3 vehicles.  People fled from high levels of a building in Yangon, and there was also shaking in Chiang Mai.  According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the epicenter was 6 miles south of Mae Lao, Thailand and 17 miles southwest of Chiang Rai.  It's depth was about 4.6 miles, a shallow quake.  Quakes that are shallow a felt more widely generally.  The region of Southeast Asia is seismically active and quakes are felt often in nearby areas.

     Well Southeast Asia is very near the Ring of Fire, so one would expect there to be seismic activity.  I'm glad that nobody was hurt.  It does sound like there was some pretty annoying damage done, though.  None of it's really severe, but it would just kind of be a bit annoying to repair.  I'm just glad we don't have quakes like these in Texas, but we have been having some seismic activity lately, so I'm not sure.  I myself didn't know that quakes were this common in this area.

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