At least one person was confirmed dead while 20 others were reported injured when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook Chiang Rai province in Thailand on Monday evening, authorities said today.

Authorities said the earthquake, which was registered at 6:08 pm Thailand time, killed an 83-year-old woman in the province and injured 20 others during the main quake and the 110 aftershocks recorded thereafter, the local media reported.

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The National Disaster Warning Centre said aftershocks were still recorded as of this posting, with the magnitudes ranging from below 3.0 to 5.2 on the Richter scale.

Thailand's earthquake authorities said the quake had a magnitude of 6.3 but the US Geological Survey said it the magnitude was 6.0.

Earth movement was also felt in the nearby provinces of Lampang, Phayao, Phrae and Chiang Mai and the capital city of Bangkok.

Damages on buildings and roads were initially reported and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra had already ordered concerned agencies to conduct a search and rescue operation and make damage assessment.

The Thailand government also said it will provide assistance to those whose lives have been affected by the latest earthquake.

The earthquake in Thailand occurred about 12 hours after a 6.0-magnitude quake rocked Japan's capital city of Tokyo. At least 17 people were injured in the Tokyo quake, authorities said.

The Tokyo earthquake's epicenter was detected near Izu-Oshima Island in the Pacific Ocean some 120

Japan and Thailand as well as the Philippines are sitting on what is considered as the Pacific ring of fire, where earthquake is registered almost every single day. In the Philippines, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake killed over a hundred persons in the provinces of Bohol and Cebu in Central Visayas and destroyed historical and religious sites that were several centuries old.

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