Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 02:52am on 25 Jul 2025,Friday Weather & Environment
In March 2025, a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake along Myanmar’s Sagaing Fault—its strongest in over a century—was accidentally recorded by CCTV. The footage shows, for the first time ever, the Earth’s surface rupturing and shifting sideways by 2.5 meters in just 1.3 seconds .Detailed analysis revealed a pulse‑like rupture pattern—a rapid, concentrated slip—and a slightly curved fault path, confirming theories previously inferred from geological scarring like slickenlines . These insights fundamentally enhance our understanding of earthquake physics and could reshape how future seismic events are modeled and mitigated.
