{"id":16309,"date":"2025-03-30T10:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T10:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/after-bangkok-building-collapse-fearing-high-rises\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T10:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T10:02:35","slug":"after-bangkok-building-collapse-fearing-high-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/after-bangkok-building-collapse-fearing-high-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"After Bangkok Building Collapse, Fearing High-Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When the earth started rocking beneath her home in Bangkok on Friday, Kanittha Thepasak thought she was simply dizzy. Then she heard an odd creaking sound, saw a lamp moving and threw aside a curtain to find cars swaying like boats at sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The streets were filled with people who had rushed outside, staring up at the apartment buildings, glass office towers and unfinished construction all around them. Now Ms. Thepasak can barely imagine returning to the office where she spends most of her days. It\u2019s on the 29th floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m freaked out, I\u2019m worried,\u201d she said. \u201cThai people have no basic understanding of earthquakes because we never really experience them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The quake that devastated Myanmar on Friday did far less damage in neighboring Thailand, but the sheer force of it \u2014 with a magnitude of 7.7 \u2014 emptied Bangkok, a city of towers, into the streets. On Sunday, two days later, as the Thai government and engineers <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationthailand.com\/thailand\/bangkok\/40048048\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">inspected<\/a> hundreds of damaged structures to ensure they could be occupied, it was still darkening thoughts of routines that increasingly include living and working dozens of stories above ground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The disaster\u2019s most devastating scene in Thailand came from the complete collapse of a Bangkok building that had been under construction. A least 11 workers were reported dead as of Sunday, and with dozens more still missing, rescue crews continued to pull carefully at the rubble with a dozen excavators and eight dogs trained to find the dead and the living.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Andy Redmond, a member of the K9 team, said all the signals on Sunday pointed to cadavers, with a scent so overwhelming that the dogs struggled to locate individual remains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s a learning curve,\u201d he said, resting between search missions that had kept him at the site since Friday afternoon. \u201cYou can\u2019t train for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Video of the building\u2019s dramatic fall seems etched in the minds of many, altering how residents see their city. For about a decade, Bangkok has been on the move, upward and outward, with a construction boom fueled by the expansion of its subway and Skytrain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But now, with at least a dozen cranes hovering over the skyline, gray skeletons of steel and concrete that once signaled economic growth have taken on an ominous quality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Somrental Nilbanjong, 34, found herself gazing at one such building downtown on Sunday afternoon as she walked home. Asked what she was thinking, she said: \u201cIt scares me just to look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A small construction elevator climbed up the exterior through pink scaffolding. She scrolled through her phone until she found a photo of the mountain of rubble a few miles away \u2014 the collapsed building, Bangkok\u2019s ground zero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Goose bumps appeared on her arms, and she shuddered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m afraid it\u2019s going to happen again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Government officials have tried to calm people\u2019s nerves and keep people updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Immediately after Friday\u2019s quake, Thailand\u2019s prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, issued an urgent alert warning people to be wary of aftershocks for the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By that evening, she sought to reassure the public by announcing that the situation had stabilized and that residents could return to their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Saturday, she rode on Bangkok\u2019s elevated railway, known as the Skytrain, to show that the trains were safe. The system had been shut down after the quake and inspected before most of the lines were reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But even as the city has re-emerged toward normalcy \u2014 malls and markets full, trains rumbling over streets packed with motorbikes \u2014 many people are struggling to process something they had thought happened only in other places, like Japan or Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Thepasak said the experience was so confounding that her mind raced to memories of what she had seen in Japanese comics or manga, with animated disasters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many people said they weren\u2019t necessarily scared, but that they were forced to ask unexpected questions: Behind glass facades, are buildings really secure? What if there are cracks that cannot be seen? What if there\u2019s a giant aftershock?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jiraporn Jaichob, 41, a drink stall owner who was having lunch when the temblor struck, said he was making plans for future disasters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He was thinking of buying a transistor radio since he\u2019d seen cellphone coverage go down. He also created a go bag for his family with key documents and supplies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWith this earthquake we learned that we don\u2019t know what might happen in a given day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe can die anytime, anywhere, I know, it\u2019s our fate,\u201d he added. \u201cBut at least we take care of our lives where we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Thailand upgraded its earthquake-resistant building code in 2007, and experts said the vast majority of the city\u2019s buildings were clearly strong enough to withstand what should still be considered a rare seismic event. Still, some engineers called for greater scrutiny and a potential upgrade in standards and enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cLook at Japan \u2014 they keep developing their laws and design,\u201d said Suchatvee Suwansawat, a professor of civil engineering at King Mongkut University and a former president of the Council of Engineers Thailand. \u201cWe should do that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The collapse of the 30-story building, which had been going up beside a mall and popular weekend market, could be a turning point. It never should have buckled, said Dr. Suwansawat, suggesting that something went wrong in design, execution or oversight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Four years into construction, it was being built by a Chinese state-owned company, the China Railway 10th Engineering Group. The Thai government has promised to investigate and report early findings in a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But like other frightening building collapses \u2014 the condo tower in Surfside, Fla., which killed 98 people in 2021; or the downing of the World Trade Center from terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 \u2014 the toll of destruction seems likely to linger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By dusk Sunday, shock, grief and dust mingled in the air at the collapse site, where a sizable crowd was gathered. Volunteer rescuers from the police and the military wearing jumpsuits cycled in and out of the area. At one point, a crane held two observers over the top of the rubble mountain as men in yellow hats stared up from below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the perimeter, the father of a Pakistani worker told reporters people were praying at temples all over Thailand, and that he hoped at least half the workers would come out alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Aubonrat Setnawet was also still hoping for good news about her husband. He had been on the 23rd floor of the building when the earthquake hit; she had been there too, working, but on the ground floor, not far from where she sat on Sunday in a soft plastic chair near a hard metal fence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the market across the street, Jatupol Sawangphanich, 42, put tape over the slits of a metal grate protecting his tropical fish business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEvery time they lift the rubble, the dust flies in this direction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Beside him, the lights of a usually busy mall had gone dark. Its structural integrity still needed to be tested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis happened all over Bangkok,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d rather not go into tall buildings at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/30\/world\/asia\/earthquake-bangkok-building-safety.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the earth started rocking beneath her home in Bangkok on Friday, Kanittha Thepasak thought she was simply dizzy. 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