Bangkok Earthquake
At around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, I landed in Bangkok. Just hours earlier, a 7.7-magnitude earthquake had struck northwest of Sagaing, Myanmar, causing widespread destruction. In the Thai capital, some 1,300 kilometers from the epicenter, a building under construction collapsed, burying workers inside. The city came to a standstill: subways were suspended, trains halted, and traffic ground to chaos. By the time I reached the city at 7:30 p.m., a state of emergency had already been declared.
The photographs document that evening and the following day at the collapse site, where rescue operations continued as authorities worked to free more than one hundred people still trapped under the debris.
