GFZ removes alert on Thailand quake

The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) removed an advisory from its website that a magnitude 6.5 earthquake had struck Thailand early on Monday.

A GFZ spokesperson confirmed that the agency was no longer reporting a quake in Thailand and was checking whether the initial report was “a glitch”. The Thai meteorological service said there was no quake with an epicenter inside Thailand.

GFZ had reported the quake in Thailand minutes after a separate report about a quake that struck off the coast of the nearby island of Borneo. The Borneo report was not removed.

The German research centre, like other public bodies that monitor earthquakes, frequently updates reports with additional information and occasionally deletes reports that prove false. — Reuters