These geological features are classified into three main types: normal, reverse, and strike-slip faults. Each type reflects different forces acting within the Earth and plays a key role in shaping ...

The Sagaing Fault is a strike-slip fault, the sliding face between two tectonic blocks that simply slide horizontally along each other’s sides. Furthemore, the Sagaing Fault is said to be a ...

Can we compare the Myanmar fault with the American one? Yes, it's the same type of strike-slip fault. You could also compare the Sagaing fault to the Turkish fault involved in the 2023 earthquake.

This earthquake was the result of a strike-slip fault movement along the Sagaing Fault line, which runs north to south through Myanmar. A strike-slip fault movement is caused by two different ...

Experts say the earthquake resulted from "strike-slip faulting" along the Sagaing Fault, a major tectonic boundary between the India and Eurasia plates. Rescue operations are underway as countries ...

Myanmar was struck by a massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake, followed by another one of 6.4 on the Richter Scale today, which claimed several lives and toppled buildings, ruptured roads and collapsed ...

Japan's Meteorological Agency says the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that jolted central Myanmar on Friday was caused by horizontal slips of land, called "strike-slip" faults. The agency says it is the ...

The temblor started 8.3 miles deep, immediately south of the Elsinore fault zone — one of the busiest seismic zones in California, according to the USGS. The 190-mile long strike-slip fault ...

“The quake was attributed to the right-lateral strike-slip fault,” the Department of Mineral Resources said. People in high-rise buildings in the northern provinces of Chiang Mai and Chiang ...