At least 23 after-shocks hit Chiang Mai
A quake, with a magnitude of 5.1, hit Chiang Mai province shortly after midnight on Wednesday, damaging college buildings and sending residents fleeing from their homes.
Rescue teams rushed to check a nearby dam and found no damage as earlier fear. The quake has centre in in Mae Rim district, just outside the city of Chiang Mai, about two minutes after midnight, the national meteorological centre said in a statement. The quake damaged at least five dormitory buildings at Maejo agriculture University, in Mae Rim, and sent panicked students and faculty into the streets. More than 2,000 students were temporarily evacuated from their dorms. Series of after shock hit the areas in the morning. Meanwhile rescue teams were sent to Mae Kuang Udom Thara Dam in the province's Doi Saket district in the morning out of fear that the quake will cause cracks. However Prachon Pratchayasakul, a rescue team chief said that initial investigation found that the quake did not cause cracks or damages at the dam. Officials from Natural Resource department will conduct detail check at the dam in the afternoon. The quake however caused cracks at the first and fifth floors of the male dormitory of the Maejo University in Sansai district. The cracks could easily be seen. A University source said engineers were sent to examine whether the quake had direct impacts on the buildings' structures or not. The Nation
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