Mauri Kunnas crashed into the doorway as the room began to shake, « It just seemed to last »
Southeast Asia|Author Mauri Kunnas compares the earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, to a stormy Stockholm cruise.
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On Friday, author Mauri Kunnas experienced an earthquake in Southeast Asia at the Finnish Embassy in Bangkok.
Kunnas was at lunch at the embassy when the quake began. The party woke up to the quake as the chandeliers swung over the table.
Other members of the party protected under the table, Kunnas in the doorway.
The quake caused chaos to traffic, but Kunnas has not detected significant damage in the area.
Author Mauri Kunnas He was on Friday to have a bunch of lunch as the room began to shake.
Kunnas says he has arrived in Bangkok, Thailand on Thursday for the book fair. When the earthquake that began in Myanmar on Friday struck, he was visiting the Finnish Embassy. There were about a dozen people at the embassy at the long dining table.
Lunch advanced cheerfully together with fun and laughing, Kunnas says. At some point, diners noticed that the chandeliers above the table were swinging.
« Then I noticed that the curtains are swinging here and so everything is swinging here, » Kunnas says on the phone.
To the top Everyone seemed to wonder what to do here, until someone said that there was a reason to go under the table.
« And then everyone went, except I, who was a clumsy old man. I looked that I was going under the doorway to stand. »
At that point, the building was already good. Kunnas says that there were a few meters from the table to the doorway.
« The reel was so hard that I didn’t stay upright. I had to grab the right corner of the table, » he describes.
Kunnas says that the situation was a bit reminiscent of the Stockholm cruise he had last fall. Because of the hard storm, the ship was so bouncing that it felt as if he had fallen.
Kunnas says that he had experienced an earthquake once in San Francisco in the United States. At that time, however, the quake only lasted well over 10 seconds.
That was what Kunnas waited now, but while waiting in the doorway, it felt like the quake never ended. It just got stronger.
« Of course, it became a bit uneasy that how long this would take. And it just seemed to last, » Kunnas says.
« I can’t say I was really scared, but of course it started to worry about what was happening now. »
Kunnas estimates that the quake has eventually lasted more than two minutes. When the swing had run out, the whole party removed the space on the 17th floor along the staircase out of the building.
Of course, other people from nearby buildings had done so.
« All the people came to the streets and there was a damn crowd. The traffic was in Junttura and there is still. »
Traffic porridge is well illustrated by the fact that the drive from the embassy’s home by the Kunnas publisher took three hours. Normally it would take 5 to 10 minutes, Kunnas says.
Earthquake Because of several buildings in Bangkok. At least three employees died and 81 people were left under the ruins after the unfinished building collapsed. The overall sacrifice of the earthquake is not yet clear, but it is estimated to reach up to thousands.
Kunnas says he has not seen any significant damage or damage in an area that has moved on Friday.
Fortunately, the earthquake of the Kunnas party was just scared.
« Probably all people are thinking a little bit that hopefully won’t be next and listen to every weather at night. »
