The quake occurred along the Queen Charlotte Fault, a right-lateral, strike-slip fault, where the opposite side of it moves ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm on a fault line, fearing it could snap without warning and produce a devastating earthquake ...

On March 28, Myanmar was rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that claimed over 5,000 lives and caused damage even in ...

The cause was a strike-slip fault, in which two masses of earth "slip" past each other horizontally along a vertical fault plane. To an observer, it would look like the ground were split in two ...

The earthquake that shook Myanmar a week ago was a "special" type of strike-slip fault, with a rupture about 450 kilometers long in only 80 to 90 seconds, causing intense effects in places located ...

To researchers at Kyoto University, the clip wasn’t just a jaw-dropping scene—it was an opportunity to study a strike-slip fault using visual data. Geologists analyzed the brief video frame-by ...

The paper "Curved Fault Slip Captured by CCTV Video During the 2025 Mw 7.7 Myanmar Earthquake" appeared on 18 July 2025 in The Seismic Record, with doi: 10.1785/0320250024 ...