On 28 March 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar, becoming the most powerful in over a century. But what ...

A strike-slip fault is a geological feature where two blocks of the Earth's crust slide past each other horizontally, like two cars brushing by on a narrow road. During bouts of tectonic activity ...

The video shows the fault slipped horizontally by 8.2 feet in only 1.3 seconds. The magnitude 7.7 event took place on March 28 along the Sagaing Fault with an epicenter near Myanmar’s second ...

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 ...

"Originating along the Sagaing Fault, a 1,400-km-long [870-mile] dextral strike-slip boundary separating the Burma Microplate and Sunda Plate, the earthquake propagated a supershear rupture over ...

“It will probably lead to some kind of a publication at some point.” The most infamous fault in the world is California’s San Andreas fault, which is also a strike-slip boundary.

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar and Thailand on March 28 has crossed a bittersweet milestone. As seen in a new video, the quake involved a strike-slip fault in the town of Thazi ...

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 ...