In a new paper titled “The 28 March 2025 Mw 7.8 Myanmar Earthquake: Preliminary Analysis of an ∼480 km Long Intermittent Supershear Rupture”, scientists from Southern University of Science and Technology - SUSTech, UC Santa Cruz and Caltech share new details about the devastating earthquake, which caused widespread and severe damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries such as Thailand. The earthquake ruptured about 480 kilometers of the Sagaing Fault that extends north-south through the central part of the country.

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