The massive 2025 Myanmar earthquake revealed that strike slip faults can behave in surprising ways. Using satellite data, ...

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar on 28 March 2025 caused widespread damage and over 3,800 fatalities, and also ...

According to a separate group’s paper published in the same journal, the southern portion of the rupture occurred at an astonishing 3.7 miles per second—fast enough to qualify as “supershear velocity.

The video seems like a gift that just keeps on giving. As the Kyoto University scientists explain in a study published last ...

More information: Lingling Ye et al, The 28 March 2025 Mw 7.8 Myanmar Earthquake: Preliminary Analysis of an ∼480 km Long Intermittent Supershear Rupture, The Seismic Record (2025).

Neither Thailand nor Myanmar's infrastructure appeared prepared to handle an earthquake of this size. Poorly built infrastructure may have led to more building collapses, and more deaths as a ...

A new study is shedding light on the behavior of the Sagaing Fault, which is very similar to the San Andreas Fault, following 7.7 quake in Myanmar earlier this year.

The undersigned organizations are gravely concerned over reports of an increasing number of deaths in custody in Myanmar, ...

The first studies of the 28 March 2025 magnitude 7.8 Myanmar earthquake suggest that the southern portion of its rupture occurred at supershear velocity, reaching speeds of 5 to 6 kilometers per ...

Images of the aftermath of a huge earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand in March were shared online as though they were images ...