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Sophie Monk has provided fans with an alarming update, revealing she recently risked her life getting to safety after getting caught in a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Thailand.
The Love Island Australia host, 45, shared a shock clip to social media on Friday in which she told fans she was staying in a Bangkok hotel when the earthquake struck.
‘I have never experienced anything like this. I’m in Bangkok and I was just in the scariest earthquake ever,’ Sophie began.
Sophie looked flustered in the clip as she stood in a crowded street in Thailand and told fans about her terrifying experience that happened just moments before.
‘I was on the 52nd floor and the building was going side-to-side. We were climbing from side-to-side on our tummies. It was so full-on’ she added.
‘We ran down the emergency stairs and made it out. Whoa, that will get your heart racing. It was so hectic, I don’t want to be in that sucker again!’
Sophie Monk has provided her fans with an alarming update, revealing she recently risked her life getting to safety after getting caught in a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Thailand
Fortunately, Sophie did not appear to be physically injured amid the ruckus and later shared another clip of a Thai woman massaging her feet as she calmed down.
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake is on the higher end of the Richter scale and has the potential to cause significant damage to infrastructure, trigger landslides, and generate tsunamis if it occurs under the ocean floor.
The earthquake struck Thailand and Myanmar on Friday, with a state of emergency declared and fears of mass casualties after tremors shook high-rise buildings and destroyed apartment blocks.
The US Geological Survey and Germany’s GFZ centre for geosciences said the incident was at a shallow 6.2 miles, with an epicentre in neighbouring Myanmar.
A second quake, with a magnitude of 6.4, shook the area 12 minutes later.
Shocking video has shown the moment workers fled as a building under construction collapsed as it was shaken by the force of the quake.
Bangkok police said the number of possible casualties was not yet known, while local media has reported that some 43 workers were missing after the collapse.
Alarms went off in buildings as the earthquake hit around 1.30pm local time – and startled residents were evacuated down staircases of high-rise buildings and hotels in densely populated central Bangkok.
The Love Island Australia host shared a shock clip to social media on Friday in which she told fans she was in a Bangkok hotel when the earthquake struck
Fortunately, Sophie did not appear to be physically injured amid the ruckus and later shared another clip of a Thai woman massaging her feet as she calmed down
They remained in the streets, seeking shade from the midday sun in the minutes after the quake.
The quake was forceful enough to send water sloshing out of pools, some high above the street in high-rises, as the tremor shook.
The quake damaged buildings in Bangkok and forced the suspension of some metro and light rail services in the city.
Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Friday she had interrupted an official visit to the southern island of Phuket to hold an ‘urgent meeting’ after the quake, according to a post on X.
Tremors were also felt in China’s southwest Yunnan province, according to Beijing’s quake agency, which said the jolt measured 7.9 in magnitude.
