Earthquake!
So there was an earthquake just the other side of the northern Thai border in Laos yesterday at just about 4PM measuring 6.1.
I first heard of it when the boss at the one school I teach at comes into class, utters something mostly unintelligble and says ‘the school is closed, everybody go home.’ My class only had 10 minutes let anyway so it wasn’t a big deal, but I was glad to leave for home a bit early anyway. ;-)
Later on I found out the quake was so far North that only tremours were felt in BKK. Though that was enough to make the building managers on Silom worry enough to evacuate the buildings. hehe. At first people misunderstood and believed a 6.1 quake had happened on Sathorn Rd itself - real near my work. I just remember sitting there after I got a call from Kaywood, wondering why I hadn’t felt anything? I may have been involved in my class, but not enough to miss a quake of that magnitude. ;-) Regardless, my buddy Toon was happy cause his evening class was cancelled. ;-) It also made me laugh a bit thinking about Hiromi and all the earthquakes Japan gets in comparison.