{"id":16252,"date":"2025-05-16T14:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=16252"},"modified":"2025-05-16T14:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:27:04","slug":"extraordinary-video-showing-earth-violently-splitting-apart-after-earthquake-leaves-scientists-in-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=16252","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Extraordinary&#8217; video showing Earth violently splitting apart after earthquake leaves scientists in shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"summary_summary__q_VAA\">The clip captured the moment a faultline split after an earthquake in Myanmar earlier this year<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">An \u2018extraordinary\u2019 video that shows the Earth violently splitting apart after an earthquake has left scientists in total shock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The incredible footage captures the moment the devastating\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/science\">earthquake<\/a>\u00a0hit in Myanmar earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">With a shocking magnitude of 7.7, the quake caused over 3,800 deaths and over 5,000 people to be injured, according to the military-led State Administration Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Thousands of homes, businesses, and other structures were also destroyed in the natural disaster, which included\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/history\">historic<\/a>\u00a0and culturally significant religious sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Now, the impact can be seen for yourself in a rare video that caught the split of the faultline as the earthquake erupted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The footage has since been making the rounds on\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/social-media\">social media<\/a>\u00a0after going viral on\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/reddit\">Reddit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"First fault rupture ever filmed: M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/77ubC4bcgRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The video shows what appears to be a driveway. As the earthquake begins, the gate at the end of the drive flies open and cracks appear in the cement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">In the background, the\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/science\/news\">landscape visibly slides<\/a>, showing the crack of the faultline in real time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Reacting to the clip, one user wrote: \u201cThat much land moved like that\u2026.the energy needed for that is mind boggling\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Another said: \u201cWatch the edges and corners. On the upper left a water tank falls off and in the upper right a power line tower collapsed. The lower right shows the shift best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">And a third person added: \u201cI had no idea the slip was that sudden. Just\u00a0<em>*snap*<\/em>\u00a0and the street&#8217;s over here now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Speaking\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/planet-earth\/earthquakes\/first-of-its-kind-video-captures-the-terrifying-moment-the-ground-tore-apart-during-major-myanmar-earthquake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to<\/a>\u00a0<em>Live Science<\/em>, Rick Aster, who is a geophysicist at Colorado State University, said: \u201cTo my knowledge this is the best video we have of a through going surface rupture of a very large earthquake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cThe actual segment of the\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/earth\">Earth<\/a>\u00a0that is slipping side to side goes from the surface down to maybe [12 to 19 miles] depth.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image_articleImage__eyzAn\">\n<div class=\"article-image_imageWrapper__ANtPE\">\n<div class=\"resizable-image_wrapper__LRQlr\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltb512383e463c0b9b\/6825cb440bf83a5d006a3dc0\/GettyImages-2206642574.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 33vw, (max-width: 768px) 50vw, (max-width: 1024px) 50vw, 33vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=256&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltb512383e463c0b9b\/6825cb440bf83a5d006a3dc0\/GettyImages-2206642574.jpg 256w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=384&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltb512383e463c0b9b\/6825cb440bf83a5d006a3dc0\/GettyImages-2206642574.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=640&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltb512383e463c0b9b\/6825cb440bf83a5d006a3dc0\/GettyImages-2206642574.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=750&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltb512383e463c0b9b\/6825cb440bf83a5d006a3dc0\/GettyImages-2206642574.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=828&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltb512383e463c0b9b\/6825cb440bf83a5d006a3dc0\/GettyImages-2206642574.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=1080&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltb512383e463c0b9b\/6825cb440bf83a5d006a3dc0\/GettyImages-2206642574.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=1200&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltb512383e463c0b9b\/6825cb440bf83a5d006a3dc0\/GettyImages-2206642574.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=1920&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltb512383e463c0b9b\/6825cb440bf83a5d006a3dc0\/GettyImages-2206642574.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=2048&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltb512383e463c0b9b\/6825cb440bf83a5d006a3dc0\/GettyImages-2206642574.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltb512383e463c0b9b\/6825cb440bf83a5d006a3dc0\/GettyImages-2206642574.jpg 3840w\" alt=\"The 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar in March (eSTR\/AFP via Getty Images)\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" data-nimg=\"fill\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><cite class=\"image-credit_imageCredit__YMlqS\">The 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar in March (eSTR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">He added: \u201cI have no doubt that seismologists will take a very close look at this. It will probably lead to some kind of a publication at some point, if the location and other details can be sorted out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">In the video description, it read: \u201cOn March 28th, 2025, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck Myanmar, causing a rupture in about 460 kilometers (290 miles) of the Sagaing fault line that runs through most of the country, causing shaking of at least intensity X on the Modified Mercalli scale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cAs heavy shaking was felt throughout much of Myanmar as well as other neighboring countries, the fault line moved side-to-side by as much as 6 meters (20 feet) in some places, a movement which was captured by the camera in this video.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The country is still recovering from the catastrophic effects of the earthquake and with many people still displaced, humanitarian needs remain critical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clip captured the moment a faultline split after an earthquake in Myanmar earlier this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":29,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16254,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252\/revisions\/16254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}