BANGKOK (AP) – Two violent earthquakes on Friday shook Southeast Asia, causing buildings in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, to shake and collapse, urging evacuation of the entire city and in neighbouring Myanmar. Bangkok police say the possible casualties are not yet known when a skyscraper under construction collapsed when the 7.7 Magnitul earthquake struck Thailand's capital on Friday.
The dramatic video circulating on social media showed a multi-story building where a crane collapsed with it fallen above while onlookers ran around screaming.
Police told The Associated Press that they were responding to a scene near Bangkok's popular Chatuchak market and that there was no immediate information on how many workers were on the site at the time of the collapse.
Rescue personnel pass debris from a construction site after the building collapsed in Bangkok on March 28, 2025 after the earthquake. (Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Getty Images)
The rescuers are working in an under-constructed skyscraper that collapsed after the 7.7 magniture earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday, March 28, 2025.
Thai rescue team provided assistance in the collapse of a construction building in Bangkok's Chatuchak region on March 28, 2025, in Bangkok, Thailand, after a powerful magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar. (Lauren Desike/Getty Images)
Thai rescuers will arrive at the scene on March 28, 2025, following the earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, with the collapse of a construction building in the Chatuchak region. (Lauren Desike/Getty Images)
Rescue personnel will search for survivors of the building after the earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand on March 28, 2025. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), a magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar, causing tremors in nearby Thailand. (Anusak Laowilas/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
The rescue team arrives with stretchers and evacuates an injured man at a construction site where a building collapsed in Bangkok on March 28, 2025. (Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP via Getty Images)
People pass through fragments of a collapsed building in Mandalay on March 28, 2025 after the earthquake. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
People will inspect debris from the collapsed building in Mandalay on March 28, 2025 after the earthquake. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
Following the earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand on March 28, 2025, people cry next to a collapsed building near Chatuchak Market. (Lauren Desike/Getty Images)
Transportation in Bangkok, Thailand during the earthquake on March 28, 2025.
The patient is lying on the compound bed at Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok after the earthquake in central Myanmar on March 28, 2025. (Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP via Getty Images)
The injured will evacuate the site of a collapsed building after the earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand on March 28, 2025. (Anusak Laowilas/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
Earthquake survivors are waiting to see a doctor at Naypyidaw hospital compounds after the earthquake in central Myanmar on March 28, 2025. (Sebastien Berger/AFP via Getty Images)
Rescue personnel search for survivors of the building after the earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand on March 28, 2025 (Anusak Rawilas/Nur Photo via Getty Images)
People are waiting openly after the earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday, March 28, 2025 (Andre Marelva/Bloomberg by Getty Images)
Royal Thai Army will take part in rescue operations after the collapse of the auditor's total building after the strong earthquake of 7.7 Magnitude Rock that felt trembling in Bangkok, Thailand on March 28, 2025 (Photo: Royal Thai Army X Account via Getty Images/Anadol)
The patient is lying on the compound bed at Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok after the earthquake in central Myanmar on March 28, 2025. (Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP via Getty Images)
The damage will be seen in some of the hospital's emergency departments in Naypyidaw after the earthquake in central Myanmar on March 28, 2025. (Sebastien Berger/AFP via Getty Images)
The car attempts to drive along damaged roads in Naypyidaw after the earthquake in central Myanmar on March 28, 2025. (Sebastien Berger/AFP via Getty Images)
People take photos of a construction site in which a building collapsed in Bangkok on March 28, 2025 after the earthquake. (Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Getty Images)
People are standing outside an office building in Bangkok on March 28, 2025 after the earthquake. (Candida ng/afp via Getty Images)
According to a preliminary report, the US Geological Survey and the German GFZ Center for Geosciences said that daytime joy is 10km (6.2 miles) and is the epicenter of Myanmar.
A second shaking magnitude of 6.4 shook the area 12 minutes later.
Water from Bangkok's high-rise rooftop pool swayed and slid down to the sides, causing debris to fall from many buildings.
A video posted on social media shortly after the earthquake showed that the building of the apartment under construction had collapsed, but it was not immediately possible to confirm its reliability.
There were no immediate reports of the victims and Prime Minister Paetong Tarun Sinawatra called an emergency meeting to assess the effects of the tremor.
The Greater Bangkok area has over 17 million people, many of whom live in high-rise apartments.
The alarm rang out in the building as the earthquake hit around 1:30pm, and surprised residents evacuated the stairs of a densely populated Bangkok apartment complex and hotel.
They remained on the street and looked for shade from the midday sun a few minutes after the earthquake.
Thailand's Disaster Administration Prevention Bureau said it felt that the earthquake had been declared in all parts of the country.
The epicenter of the earthquake was located in central Myanmar, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Moniwa city.
In the capital, naypyitaw, the earthquake destroyed religious shrines, sending parts and several homes that fell to the ground.
Further reports of damages from Myanmar, which is being caught up in the civil war, were not immediately available.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
