Seismologists Identify Rare Supershear Event During Devastating Myanmar Quake

Seismologists Identify Rare Supershear Event During Devastating Myanmar Quake

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BREAKING NEWS Alert: Powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake

The quake struck at 3:42 a.m. local time , with its epicenter in a mountainous area on the border between Myanmar and Yunnan Province, China , at a depth of approximately 10 kilometers, according to data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The quake was also strongly felt in the cities of Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai in Thailand, where mass evacuations were reported. Myanmar , the worst-hit country so far, has declared a state of emerg…

In World First, CCTV Captures Supershear Velocity Earthquake

For the first time ever, a CCTV camera in Myanmar captured real-time footage of a supershear strike-slip earthquake moving at 3.7 miles per second. According to seismologists at Japan's Kyoto University, the analysis has "led to new findings based on real-time visual evidence of tectonic motion," reports Popular Science. From the report: The magnitude 7.7 event took place on March 28 along the Sagaing Fault with an epicenter near Myanmar's secon…