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

Scientists say earthquake prediction is impossible but studying the 2025 Myanmar earthquake may help forecast when, and where ...

The earthquake destroyed buildings in neighbouring Thailand (pictured) and in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city. According to the US Geological Survey, likely losses of life are between ...

Myanmar’s 2025 quake reveals that major faults may unleash far larger, more unpredictable earthquakes than scientists once believed.

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.

University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan—On March 28, 2025, a major earthquake with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.7 struck Mandalay, central Myanmar (referred to as the 2025 Myanmar earthquake).

Kyoto, Japan --  During the midday Friday prayer hours on 28 March 2025, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar along the Sagaing Fault. With an epicenter close to Mandalay, the ...

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).

Journal Reference: Jesse Kearse, Yoshihiro Kaneko. Curved Fault Slip Captured by CCTV Video During the 2025 Mw 7.7 Myanmar Earthquake. The Seismic Record, 2025; 5 (3): 281 DOI: 10.1785/0320250024 ...

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