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'A lot of panic': Tourists caught up in Bangkok earthquake

People in Bangkok say they've never experienced an earthquake like the one which struck on Friday around 1.30pm.

"It was scary," Zsuzsanna Vari-Kovacs, a Hungarian living in the city told reporters after the 7.7-magnitude earthquake with its epicentre in Myanmar, rocked the Thai capital.

A man who had been in the mall said he ran outside to see the whole building was shaking.

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