High-rise buildings in Bangkok could fall like dominoes if the capital is shaken by a major earthquake, even from a distant fault line, a group of seismic experts has warned.
And they urged authorities to better educate people on how to handle the situation if and when a quake occurs.
Because Bangkok is not located within the Pacific’s so-called “Ring of Fire”, many tall buildings are particularly vulnerable to jolts as most of them were not built to withstand major tremors.
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