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power24
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Watching the Iranian earthquake destruction (6.3 on richter) on the BBC today made me wonder what measures have been taken by hotel builders in southern thailand. Obviously the area around the indian ocean is quite seismically active at the moment...could the thai buildings stand up to an earthquake of this tremor size??
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:30 pm on Feb. 22, 2005
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power24
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I guess that there are no seisomologists or structural engineers on the board then?
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 6:37 am on Feb. 23, 2005
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babanana
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I dont know about the structural engineering much...but most of the girl friendly hotels gets fully booked and occupied at times and still survive with so many tremors every nite.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 7:01 am on Feb. 23, 2005
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power24
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I didnt see the " you should feel the seismic activity under my bed at 2 in the morning" comments coming!
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 10:32 am on Feb. 23, 2005
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manowar
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Quote: from power24 on 6:26 am on Feb. 23, 2005
I didnt see the " you should feel the seismic activity under my bed at 2 in the morning" comments coming!
I was trained in structural engineering. The Thai high-rise building is absolutely unsafe if, for exemple, everyone in a fully-occupied Nana Hotel pounds their TBG's all at the same time in a rhythmic way, the resultant harmonic excitation will surely bring the buildng down. To orchastrate this, we need someone to begin the excitation by shouting : "hi, ho, hi, ho" as he goes up and down and all everyone else has to do is to time their hips with the 'hi" and the "ho" and the building will be coming down in no time..........
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:32 pm on Feb. 23, 2005
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kastanje
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To respond to the original question, BKK lies in a very low seismic design zone. In fact BKK knows very few natural hazards other than floods. There are no earthquakes, no hurricanes, no tsunamis, no twisters, no other extreme events. However, if any Richter 6 or greater event would ever strike BKK (extremely unlikely), most of the infrastructure and high-rise would collapse and the consequences would be disastrous.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 3:30 pm on Feb. 23, 2005
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power24
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What about hotels further south than Bangkok nearer to the epicentre of the tsunami seaquake? Incidentally I just found this whilst searching for information. I dont know how true these observations are.
Bangkok quake zone
Tuesday, 01 February 2005
New map reclassifies capital as quake-prone
Geologists have added Bangkok and its neighbouring provinces to the national map of quake-prone areas for fear of more violent seismic activity arising from the undersea quake off Sumatra that caused the deadly tsunamis in December.
Bangkok had been previously classified as having a low earthquake risk, but the magnitude 9.0 quake on Dec 26 has geologists worried it may have activated fault lines in western Thailand.
Only 10 provinces in the North and West of the country, including Kancha-naburi where there are two large dams, have been listed as areas most vulnerable to earthquakes and are in so-called ``red zones''.
But geologists believe the recent quake that caused tidal waves and destruction required a rewrite of the map of quake-prone areas. Bangkok, with many high-rise buildings, needed to be included.
``Bangkok soil is, by nature, soft clay, which can amplify quake magnitudes by two or three times,'' said Somsak Potisat, chief of the Mineral Resources Department.
The department rleased a 2005 version of the national quake-risk map yesterday during a two-day international seminar on establishing a tsunami early warning system.
The map put Bangkok and neighbouring provinces such as Samut Prakan, one of the country's most industrialised areas, at higher risk of a future quake.
The department plans to forward the new map to the Department of Public Works and Town and Country Planning and ask for a new law requiring stronger building design in the future.
The move quickly prompted Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suvit Khunkitti to call for reinforcement of existing buildings so they would be more resistant to unpredictable quakes.
``The public should not panic,'' senior chief engineer Thiraphan Thongpravati, of the Department of Public Works and Town Country Planning said after learning of the new map. Engineers had always been aware of possible quake risk when designing buildings in Bangkok.
A special panel under the Building Control Committee is also reviewing legal requirements for future building design, which would force engineers to adjust building specifications so they would be able to resist stronger quakes.
``The Dec 26 quake was a load test for Bangkok buildings on how their strength resisted tremors,'' Mr Thiraphan said.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:03 pm on Feb. 23, 2005
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Oz
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All the Hotels I stay in Thailand run regular Emergency Evac Drills reguarlly, least once a week or more. So if there is a problem, they will know how to handle it. TIT!
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 6:18 pm on Feb. 23, 2005
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expatchuck
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Oz:
Do they unlock the fire exits during the drills?
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:41 pm on Feb. 23, 2005
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