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 fault line is a large known fault line, it's a strike slip fault line we call it, so one where the two sides slide past each other - kind of like Wellington. "It's known as one of the most ...

Japan’s Meteorological Agency also confirmed that Friday’s trembler in Myanmar was caused by horizontal slips of land, or “strike-slip” faults, reported NHK WORLD-JAPAN. Speaking to The Guardian, Bill ...

While this causes "strike slip" quakes that are normally less powerful than those ... don't radiate out from the epicentre - they radiate out from the whole line of the fault," he added. HOW PREPARED ...

Dr Rebecca Bell, a reader in tectonics at Imperial College London, said that to accommodate all of this motion, faults - cracks ... earthquake was a "strike-slip" - where two blocks move ...

“It’s important not to be focused on epicentres because the seismic waves don’t radiate out from the epicentre - they radiate out from the whole line of the fault,” he added. Myanmar lies ...

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 ...

The Sagaing Fault "has long been considered one of the most dangerous strike-slip faults on Earth" because of its proximity to major cities Yangon and Mandalay, as well as capital Naypyidaw ...

“The movement of the Sagaing Fault along the right-lateral strike-slip plane has a displacement rate of 2 centimeters per year. The Sagaing Fault previously caused a major earthquake in 1930 ...