Whoa. A security cam in Myanmar captured an earthquake fault rupture live. This may be the first ever caught on camera?

Watch the fence-line on the right. And note the power-line tower behind it.

👀

More on earthquake ruptures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_rupture

#Earthquake #Myanmar #FaultRupture #Geology

Earthquake rupture - Wikipedia

My favorite thing about having posted this, is that SO many people chimed in with “did you see ___ in there?” And I did not.

It’s like crowd-sourced observation. 😉

Y’all are rad.

@markwyner If you look at the buildings to the LEFT, you can see what looks like a rain barrel on the roof fall to the ground and splash water everywhere, as well as the small blue shack get twisted and collapse
@malcircuit That’s on the left for me. But I see it now! I hadn’t previously. Mercy.
@markwyner how is it opposite to you

@joe @markwyner

they must be in the southern hemisphere.

@malcircuit by the way, I wasn’t making fun with that comment. I would hate to think it came across that way. That was my ADHD brain just making an observation. Please forgive me if I offended.
@markwyner lol no problem you're correct. I meant left but I had a brain fart lol
@malcircuit @markwyner i just noticed the patio concrete also cracks

@blogdiva @malcircuit @markwyner

I'm also loving reading everyone's observations, having watched it about 10x I'm going back for more!

The ground behind the fence on the right moving was insane 😳
#Earthquake

@malcircuit @markwyner it’s this that makes me strongly believe that the ground to the right stays still. Our camera viewpoint and the ground it’s on has all the movement.

@markwyner

WOW! it's almost too weird to believe, but there it is...

@markwyner, what tower? I see only a pylon (and a utility pole) over there.

@lp0_on_fire I see both. The terms are interchangeable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_tower

I’m not sure what you’re getting at here.

Transmission tower - Wikipedia

@markwyner Huh. I thought I was well over the Christchurch earthquakes, but watching that it turns out I was wrong.
@markwyner wild that the land decides "na I'm over here now" crazy clip that

@markwyner

Pretty cool.

And what a rapid slip—no wonder things shake like they do.

Never had the experience myself though.

Closest I've come is a few days in Denpasar before a rumble there a week or so after departure.

@markwyner holy shit thats a lot of movement

@markwyner

On one hand, cool!

On the other hand, omg, I don't want to be anywhere near there

@chu @markwyner what happens to the road and the houses now?

@blogdiva @markwyner

Being that close to the fault, I would question if the home is still structurally sound. You figure it probably moved enough to destabilize the foundation. My guess is you gotta send some teams through and some might need to come down, sadly.

@chu @markwyner that’s what i thought. that driveway cracked so easily, am going to wager that house’s foundation is questionably shallow and thin.

@markwyner

San Franciscan here. I was here for the Loma Prieta quake in 1989.

These days I'm an obsessive, compulsive doom scroller, but I can't get past this vid. I keep watching it over and over and over. Every time I notice something new. My current fave is the rip that opens in the road as it passes the doomed little shed. The cracks in the pavement opening and closing is pretty fascinating, too. I've seen the aftermath. There was torn up pavement all over town. But this is the first time I saw it happening. Actually, I missed most of the Loma Prieta action. I was indoors in North Beach, in bed, screwing. And yeah, I know it's a cliché, but we really did feel the earth move.

@markwyner

Same here. Every time I watch it I pick a new area to watch
They way that half of the ALL just shifted over that way, was amazing

@LevZadov

@markwyner

Driveway will need some sealing.

@markwyner does the hardware store sell a "1/8th" house number so they can update their address?
@markwyner If you look close through the gate, you can see the sidewalk do a perfect split

@markwyner

It's like half the landscape is just leaving the train station...

@markwyner
The ground should not move.
The ground should not move!
The ground should not move?
The ground, please don't move.
Oh wow, that was a SIGNIFICANT shift, wow!
@markwyner the crust is 10s of miles DEEP and the plates are 1000s of miles wide. the surface of the earth is mere tissue paper compared to the forces and movements involved!
@markwyner that's so fucked i don't like the ground moving like that no siree

@markwyner

We are utterly dwarfed by the forces in this universe.

@markwyner “Secondary prefabricated cabin 2”. Sturdy cabin, given how stable these recordings are!
@markwyner That pylon was not prepared at all.
@markwyner @ai6yr in case you hadn't already seen this
@markwyner it looks like the left side with our camera is lifted above the right side of the rapture during the slide. That's really interesting!

@markwyner

the incredible amount of FORCE need for that. bonkers.

@markwyner in France we have https://www.vulcania.com which is pretty cool to learn what an earthquake feels like when you live somewhere where there is almost none, and my parents loved getting us there. So my brain was more "indeed quite impressive!" with your video and less than "this trickery is impossible"
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@luciledt outstanding. I’d love to be able to experience that.

I was once in an earthquake, but it was small. I saw the utility poles outside swaying and the floor was moving like a trampoline. This was a newer steel-construction building. It was surreal.

I can’t imagine what an intense one feels like.

What was the Richter scale of measurement for this particular earthquake!!
I mean the gate moved really quick. It's must be a major earthquake happened.