February 29, 2024
BANGKOK – The department’s earthquake monitoring centre, also known as the DMR-Alert, documented the quake at 1:28am.
The epicentre was at the coordinates of Latitude 19.505 degrees North and Longitude 98.443 degrees East in Tambon Mae Na Terng, and at a depth of 3 kilometres.
The department said there were no early reports of damages.
The quake was caused by normal movement along the Wiang Haeng fault, which runs in a north-south direction, according to the DMR-Alert.
Four smaller quakes followed at a depth of 1 kilometre in Tambon Wiang Nua of the same district, the Alert added.
Those quakes occurred at 1:36am, 1:40am, 2:49am, and 6:15am with 2.7 magnitude, 2.0 magnitude, 2.9 magnitude and 2.3 magnitude respectively.