A rare, ultra-long earthquake in Myanmar revealed that mature faults can deliver their full force directly to the surface.

The massive 2025 Myanmar earthquake revealed that strike slip faults can behave in surprising ways. Using satellite data, Caltech researchers found the Sagaing Fault ruptured more dramatically than ...

An international team of researchers led by The University of New Mexico set out to understand how these mature faults break ...

Depiction of the main fault systems in Myanmar and adjacent regions (a), showing the location of the March 28, 2025 earthquake and an inset map of the tectonic context (top left). The figure also ...

Images of the aftermath of a huge earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand in March were shared online as though they were images of destruction after a quake in late July in Russia’s Far East. Facebook ...

In May, we reported on a first-of-its-kind video that captured surface rupture during Myanmar’s devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake. While the YouTube video now has 1.6 million views, two ...

Mushtaq Khan, a senior adviser for the International Rescue Committee, felt his building jolt from all the way in the capital, Kabul, on Sunday night. He woke the next morning to a horrifying death ...

YANGON (Sept. 26, 2025)—A deadly earthquake that struck Myanmar six months ago has exacerbated an already dire humanitarian crisis and has left 9.3 million people, or one sixth of the population,[1] ...

Myanmar needs help. After more than four years of brutal civil war, the country has been hit by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, the strongest it has suffered since 1946. The resulting humanitarian crisis ...

On March 28, 2025, a devastating earthquake struck Myanmar, reducing homes to rubble, leaving behind irreparable loss and taking hundreds of lives. It also had a devastating impact on people already ...