6.0 quake hits northern Thailand

[JaiDee]

Here are some images

 

        http://imgur.com/a/n1W8D

 

 Epicenter -    http://earthquaketrack.com/p/thailand/chiang-rai/recent

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[ArchieBunker]

Evidently quite a bit of damage in Chang Rai.  Didnt feel it here in Bangers.  Some reports that people did feel the quake in high rises!!

[SiamSam]

Are you on the ground in LOS Arch? If so, I am curious about you flight route/airline choice/return cost out of NYC.

 

None of my business I know but I am nosey. On the other hand you can simply tell me to go fly a kite. I am good with that also.  

[JaiDee]

Evidently quite a bit of damage in Chang Rai.  Didnt feel it here in Bangers.  Some reports that people did feel the quake in high rises!!

 

   A German Facebook friend of mine reported feeling it on the 31st floor of his BKK high-rise.....not sure of the validity of that but he has no reason to lie, says it was the first earthquake he has ever felt.

 

   Come to think of it, in my half-century I have never felt one before.

[Snick]

Bad news , my favorite Wat has been ruined. 

 

 

Wat Rong Khun is beyond repair

 

National artist and constructor of Wat Rong Khun or the White Temple Chalermchai Kositpipat said Tuesday that the temple is now beyond repair and may be left as a monument for the world to remember its past glory.

Ajarn Chalermchai expressed his deep regret for the damage caused by what he called “the nature” after the temple was again struck by two aftershocks following the major 6.3 magnitude quake at 6.08 p.m. Monday night.

He said at first he thought the temple could be repaired back to normal but the two aftershocks brought down his hope as it now was beyond his capability to bring it back to normal.

He said the mural paintings which took him almost his lifetime to create on the wall and ceiling were gone with the collapse of the wall and ceiling.

“It was the masterpiece of the art work that was created and could not be created again as I had devoted to creating it in almost 20 years.”

He said the temple could be rebuilt but it would not be the same as the art work he devoted his life to create could never be made.

He said he was now old enough to spend another 20 years to create.

“Everything is finished and I may leave the temple, a world’s masterpiece, to remain as it is now for the latter generation to remember.”

He said he did not want any government organisation to lend a helping to reconstruct it because he is the sort of a peron who never depends on other’s hands.

He said he did not want any assistance as he did not want interference, or listen to order if he accepted the assistance.

He said he would like to leave the temple as a monument for visitors to remember its glorious past as now it was beyond repair.

 

 

[pdogg]

 

 

   Come to think of it, in my half-century I have never felt one before.

There was one in Connecticut?? around 1985 that I felt in Jersey.  Tried to google it but couldn't find it; my guess about a 4.0 on the Richter scale.

[JaiDee]

A couple of years ago there was a 5.5 or so right around Washington DC.  It damaged the National Cathedral and the Washington Monument.  

[ArchieBunker]

Remember that one JD.  The WM had scaffolding on it for ages.  Dont know if its yet reopened.

 

Sam I can send you a PM.

[RocketSquirrel]

Bad news , my favorite Wat has been ruined. 

I always wanted to go to this temple and I kept putting it off.  Sad news indeed.  It looked so fantastic in photographs.

 

 

 

[SiamSam]

I always wanted to go to this temple and I kept putting it off.  Sad news indeed.  It looked so fantastic in photographs.

 

 

 

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