The Main Fault System of the Myanmar Earthquake from March 2025 (IMAGE)

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The Main Fault System of the Myanmar Earthquake from March 2025

Caption

Depiction of the main fault systems in Myanmar and adjacent regions (a), showing the location of the March 28, 2025 earthquake and an inset map of the tectonic context (top left). The figure also shows (b) the course of the Sagaing Fault and seismicity color-coded by depth. Historical earthquakes with magnitude ≥ 5 are plotted by year and geographic latitude in (c), with gray bars indicating the approximate historical rupture length.

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CCBY 4.0 Vera et al. (2025). The Seismic Record. 5(3), 289–299, doi: 10.1785/0320250025

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