Bangkok residents seek quake-proof homes

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When Phatsakon Kaewkla came home to his apartment in the Thai capital after a massive earthquake hit neighbouring Myanmar, he found gaping cracks in the walls of his home.  The 23-year-old sales coordinator is now one of many Bangkok residents wondering if they should seek safer housing in a city where hundreds of residential buildings were damaged by the 7.7-magnitude quake that struck Myanmar on March 28.

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00:00After the earthquake, I come back to my room after that about five hours after I come to

00:28check in my room. I saw many cracks on the wall. So at that time, I feel so scared and I moved to live at my family house in another province.

00:58So now, the demand for the矮層 has increased.

01:03I think it's not safe because before that earthquake, we were all thinking like Thailand is not earthquake area.

01:24Actually, that's why we are not living in Turkey. It's not safe. It's an earthquake area and specialists expecting a really big earthquake.

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