"First in history" shift the fault, fixed by the camera: how the earth cracks the seams (video)

According to the researchers, the earthquake began along the ravage of Saging, a right -wing fracture of 1400 km, which divides the Burmese microplitic and Sunda stove, and then extended a 460 kilometers with a surface shift of more than 6 meters. As a result, the shallow, about 10 km, the landslide mechanism caused strong shocks in densely populated cities, while increasing seismic energy in remote regions - for example, Bangkok and Thailand. In focus.

Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! The network is now spreading a video, which in geological circles is called the first in the history of the fracture shift that people have managed to make. The video is expected to be removed near the pelvis (Myanmar) and shows the moment when the two blocks of the earth move past each other.

Note that you should focus on the background of a short video to notice how the landscape slides around. According to the US Geological Service, reset is a crack or crack area between two blocks of rock. The faults allow the blocks to move relative to each other, and this movement can occur quickly, in the form of an earthquake, or slowly, in the form of creep.

The length of the fault can be only a few millimeters to thousands of kilometers, but most of them cause repeated displacements during geological time. During the earthquake, the rock on one side is suddenly displaced relative to the other, with the surface surface can be horizontal, vertical or have an arbitrary angle between them. According to the researchers, a new video is probably the first in the history of mankind, when the shift was fixed on the camera.

Further analysis of the mechanism of the hearth showed that the earthquake occurred as a result of a sliding discharge at a small depth - only about 10 kilometers - which corresponds to the activity of the break along the sagin. Observations show that from the epicenter the gap spread 75 km north, ending south of Sing, while a wider gap of 420 km in the south, ending about drinking. The most significant shift in the reset exceeding 1 meter was focused on the site between Sing and Octwin.

On the contrary, the regions under and south of Pu was less than 1 meter. At the same time, the largest shift of 4. 3 meters was recorded between Sagin and Amarapura. The whole process of break took a little over 80 seconds, with the highest seismic release moment occurred about 30 seconds after the start. Scientists also believe that the rupture speed has exceeded the speed of the landslide wave that classifies the event as a landing earthquake.