This earthquake was the result of a strike-slip fault movement along the Sagaing Fault line, which runs north to south through Myanmar. A strike-slip fault movement is caused by two different ...

The large rupture, lasting only 80 to 90 seconds, had such intense effects in places located over a thousand kilometers from ...

Can we compare the Myanmar fault with the American one? Yes, it's the same type of strike-slip fault. You could also compare the Sagaing fault to the Turkish fault involved in the 2023 earthquake.