Quake felt in the North
published : 29 Jun 2023 at 11:51
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
An earthquake shook northern Thailand early Thursday morning and people in six provinces felt it.
The Meteorological Department reported that the 4.5-magnitude quake was detected five kilometres underground in Phitsanulok's Bang Krathum district at 12.17am.
People in Phitsanulok and the adjacent provinces of Phichit and Kamphaeng Phet felt the tremor.
People in Nakhon Sawan province in the lower North and the northeastern province of Loei also felt it, as well as in Petchabun, according to the department.
There were reports of new cracks at Wat Rat Chang Khwan in Muang district of Phichit. The Buddhist temple stands about 7km from the epicentre of the earthquake.
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Vocabulary
- adjacent: very near, next to, or touching - ติดกัน
- crack: a line on a surface where something is beginning to break apart - รอยแตก รอยร้าว
- epicentre (noun): the point on the earth's surface where the effects of an earthquake are felt most strongly; the central point of something - ศูนย์กลาง
- Meteorological Department: the government department in charge of determining what the weather will be in the future - กรมอุตุนิยมวิทยา
- quake: earthquake, a sudden shaking movement of the ground - แผ่นดินไหว
- tremor: a shaking of the earth; an earthquake - การสั่นสะเทือน
