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Global First: Real-time video directly captures how the Earth’s surface moves during an earthquake

A quiet Friday afternoon in central Myanmar was shattered on March 28, 2025, when a massive magnitude 7.7 earthquake tore through the region. The rupture followed the notorious Sagaing Fault, a strike ...

Dense soils may spread earthquake surface ruptures into wider damage zones, particle models suggest

Earthquakes can visibly and permanently crack the ground apart in dramatic and unpredictable surface fault rupture, but new research led by University of Michigan Engineering revealed that soil ...