Thailand ‘needs proper system to predict quakes’

Thailand still does not have a proper scientific method of predicting earthquakes, a university lecturer has warned.

“When the 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit Kanchanaburi in 1983, the locals were caught off guard,” Dr Weerachai Siriphanvaraphon from Mahidol University’s faculty of science told a seminar.

Read more: The Nation

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