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An earthquake was recorded off the southern coast of Myanmar on Monday with tremors also felt in Thailand, but there were no immediate reports of major damage. The 5.1 magnitude quake was recorded ...
The Sagaing Fault is one of the largest sources of earthquakes in the country, having produced deadly quakes in the past centuries. Along the western coast, offshore Rahkine State , the Sunda Megathrust , where the Indian plate dives beneath the Burma plate is capable of producing large events and tsunamis like the 2004 earthquake .
At 20°N, the fault offsets a stream by 2.4 km (1.5 mi); the largest observable offset along the segment. Although no major historical earthquake has been clearly associated with the segment, a possible contender is the 1839 Ava earthquake which destroyed the city of Inwa and caused severe damage to areas east and south of the Irrawaddy River. [9]
The 2011 Tarlay earthquake occurred on 24 March in Shan State, Myanmar. The earthquake measured M w 6.8 and had an epicenter northwest of the border between Myanmar, Thailand and Laos. It occurred in a region accommodating tectonic deformation brought by the collision between the Indo-Australian and Eurasian plates.
Images from news agency AFP showed submerged homes and vehicles in the city of Taungoo, an hour south of the capital Naypyidaw. Other images show residents evacuating on boats and bamboo rafts ...
The closest to Yangon is a 50 km (31 mi) gap between the May and December 1930 earthquakes which remains unruptured and is capable of producing a magnitude 7.0 earthquake [7] Extending north of Naypyidaw, a 260 km (160 mi) section corresponding to the Meiktila segment is also another seismic gap. It stretches from Nay Pyi Taw to Mandalay and ...
A flash mob of mostly young people in Myanmar’s biggest city staged a brief protest march Thursday against military rule, the latest in a series of actions aimed at reducing the chances of a ...
Naypyidaw, officially romanized as Nay Pyi Taw (NPT), [a] [b] is the capital and third-largest city of Myanmar. The city is located at the centre of the Naypyidaw Union Territory . [ 1 ] It is unusual among Myanmar's cities in that it is an entirely planned city outside of any state or region .