Bangkok residents look for quake-proof homes after devastating earthquake

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Bangkok: Fatsakin Kukla was afraid when he returned home to see wide cracks in the walls of his Bangkok flat on the 22nd floor, which was shaken by a powerful earthquake a few hours ago.

The 23 -year -old Thai decided to stay away for two days until the experts cleaned up the high because it felt unsafe in the building that had been destroyed by the largest earthquake to invade the capital in decades.

The Sales Coordinator is now one of the many Bangkok’s residents who are wondering if they should look for a safe living in a city where hundreds of residential buildings have been damaged by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake attacking neighbor Myanmar on March 7.7.

The owners of Fatsakin’s condominum assured him that engineers had examined every part of the building and concluded that it was living.

But still he has been nervous about the cracks.

He said, “I feel a little scared. And my mother also told me to get out of here.”

The Thai capital, its Skyline is a thousand kilometers (620 miles), with hundreds of towers and shining high.

Owen Xu, a 40 -year -old real estate -based real estate adviser, told AFP that the effects on his sector had been “significant”.

“People think that when there is a resistance to earthquake than a two -storey or low rise structure, people have realized that living in tall buildings can be more at risk,” said a Chinese property expert.

He says the earthquake has sparked inquiries by residents last week, saying that due to a massive “fear and anxiety” of living above the ground.

‘The difference in idea’

Turkey -based Yagat Bikargon was with his wife at home in Bangkok when the earthquake was hit. After the collapse, they came down from the bottom of a table to inspect the damage to their 22nd floor flat.

The 25 -year -old said, “It burst everywhere, especially in the transit. You can see that all the roof is really bad.”

Despite the concerns of bikingon’s safety, the owners of this block looked unacceptable.

They say it’s “100 % safe, but I’m not sure,” he said.

A large number of studio apartments are rented on annual lease in Bangkok’s vast residential projects, which requires two months of deposit.

Most condo does not allow short -term rentals for security reasons, and can only lease in hotels for less than 30 days.

The tenants and property owners often do not agree on the residence of the earthquake -hit apartments, and the disputes become more common.

“There is a difference between an impression and decision between the two sides,” he told AFP.

“The landlord considers the unit safe, while the tenant feels that it is insecure and insists on going out and returning their deposit.”

To raise the bar

The earthquake safety standards for buildings in Thailand in Thailand were “not particularly hard,” and neither did the customers of the property acquisition, especially, asked about it.

Increasing anxiety since the earthquake was a surprising total end of 30 -storey construction in Bangkok, which trapped dozens of workers, most of which remain unaccounted for a week later.

City officials are now investigating whether poor building equipment has been used in its construction.

Zhu says more and more of his clients are now choosing less.

For home hunters still considering high rise, they often require that the property “did not cause minimal or no harm, or at least not severe during the recent earthquake”.

He believes that property prices will rise in a long time as the demand for safe buildings has demanded the adoption of expensive earthquake resistance measures, adding that “the bar for Thailand’s real estate sector has been increased”.

But for bikingon, it is not enough to improve building rules to calm your fears about geology factors.

Although the spread of the earthquake in his native country of Turkey felt anxiety, he did not expect that he would feel the same about Thailand.

“Thailand is safe,” he remembered thinking earlier.

“That’s why I can’t believe (earthquakes).”