According to a separate group’s paper published in the same journal, the southern portion of the rupture occurred at an ...

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

A CCTV video from Myanmar has revealed the first direct footage of a curved fault slip during an earthquake—confirming long-held geological theories and deepening our understanding of rupture dynamics ...

The first studies of the 28 March 2025 magnitude 7.8 Myanmar earthquake suggest that the southern portion of its rupture ...

Seismologists reveal that the March 28, 2025, Myanmar earthquake likely moved at 'supershear' velocity, which is analogous to ...

In a National Science Foundation-funded study reported in the June 11, 2014, issue of the journal Science, Scripps geophysicists Zhongwen Zhan and Peter Shearer of Scripps, along with their colleagues ...

Inchworm-like source evolution through a geometrically complex fault fueled persistent supershear rupture during the 2018 Palu Indonesia earthquake. Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 2020; 547 ...

Supershear earthquakes are more likely to happen along long, mature faults like the San Andreas, where many years of activity have ground away a lot of the twists and bumps that might slow down an ...

The island of Sulawesi, Indonesia was left with significant damage following a September 2018 earthquake and tsunami. Photo credit: Devina Andiviaty, Wikimedia Commons. Share Last fall, scientists ...

Most supershear earthquakes actually travel even faster than the one in Palu, cruising along almost as fast as another type of earthquake wave known as a pressure wave. These commonly zoom by ...