in a sense it's mind blowing that we had images of stars being born, black holes, cells dividing etc before earthquake faults in motion. Like how the process of how they happen have only been inferred until now
PSA: it's easy to miss on the first watch because the big action happens in the background behind the gate.
wizardforhire · 9h ago
Thanks, first watch all I saw was the driveway crack appear. Second pass could be mistaken for a parallax effect as the entire background shifts forward!
nobrains · 7h ago
So, I recommend seeing it in 3 passes. 1st pass, see the right 1/3rd area of the video. It shows the 2 sides moving. Then see the middle 1/3rd area of the video. It shows both the movement and the rupture in the ground. Then see the left 1/3rd area of the video. It shows the rupture on the ground clearly.
Interesting. I see no other video. I use brave so maybe it blocked all the ads and noise.
falseprofit · 1h ago
It’s the first YouTube embed in the article.
blinding-streak · 3h ago
How does property/real estate ownership work in this case? Seeing the land shift so clearly by several feet makes me wonder.
What was on your property is now on my property!
widforss · 3h ago
By the discussions I've had with surveyors in my country (Sweden), any coordinate descriptions of properties are deferred to the physical markers in the ground (cairns for older property, metal stakes for newer ones). This would only be an issue in properties that have never been surveyed (and marked) at all.
Straight borders might become crooked if they cross the crack though.
xattt · 2h ago
It sure would suck to lose half your property to the earth suddenly saying screw you.
MichaelZuo · 2h ago
You could lose all your property, without compensation too, if your unlucky enough to have a big enough meteorite crash into it.
whycome · 1h ago
Or be native
__MatrixMan__ · 33m ago
The natives lost something, to be sure, but I'm not sure it was property. Property is created when you kick everyone else out. I assume that's the rationale behind "property is theft," it used to be everybody's and now it's yours.
mc32 · 1h ago
Or lose a war, or bet your property or not pay taxes or eminent domain… but I guess nomads never had a immovable property claim.
4.x l to 5.x earthquakes are still happening a few times a week and the area couldn't recover from disaster. last week, one 4 stories building next to my friend house collapsed,near Mandalay.
Does that mean Myanmar is now an active zone?
jofer · 12m ago
It's always been active. The Sagaing fault is a plate boundary. You're seeing the "side" of the Indian subcontinent slamming northward into the Eurasian plate.
A previous discussion of the M7.7 quake in Burma/Myanmar from March 28, 2025 was provided by Sean Wilsey. He explained the earthquake and context and discussed the CCTV footage around 6:30 https://youtu.be/CfKFK4-HNmk
andrewflnr · 11h ago
It seems like the analysis is the new part.
ofalkaed · 7h ago
Quadrennial myopia.
netbioserror · 11h ago
Terrifying. I program automated vibration analysis for blasting, and a very powerful explosive blast will feature particle velocities (the direct corollary for power) in the single-digit in/s range (~0.02-0.13 m/s) . This peak particle velocity is 20-150x higher than the peaks we see from the most powerful blasts we measure, if they're at all qualitatively comparable.
And of course, the earthquake energy source is many magnitudes larger and much, much further away, deep in the crust, with the wavefront already having passed through miles of solid rock. We measure blasts from at most a few hundred meters away.
card_zero · 11h ago
in/s? Inches per second, or something else? One inch per second is the speed of an excited snail.
Aachen · 3h ago
Must be inches per second because 1–10 of those is 0.025–0.25 m/s so that matches the parentheses
csours · 10h ago
in soil, not air.
card_zero · 10h ago
Yikes, I see.
moomoo11 · 10h ago
Silly question but how does this affect mapping software? Or is the movement insignificant that it doesn’t matter
Metres of movement would definitely be significant for a lot of mapping use cases. This is why the time component of any coordinate measurement is important, both due to earthquakes as well as plain old plate motion.
praptak · 9h ago
It does but it's just one of many factors that make maps diverge from the ground truth:
I know nothing so help me here. Why is this so rare? Aren't earthquakes, cameras, and monitoring of them pretty common?
irjustin · 10h ago
Videos of earthquakes are common enough.
It's the video of the fault line itself fracturing that's so interesting.
We know where the fault lines are, so we generally avoid building anything major near them because... well earthquakes. Hence no other videos of actual fault line fractures (vs general street ones).
varispeed · 5h ago
It is remarkable how widespread of CCTV has helped in that field. Imagine being a scientist and never actually experience or see the earthquake you are into researching. That be like going to place where they are common and then sit a year or so and anticipating. Is it coming? Should be any time soon? Then when it happens you are in the toilet and have seen nothing apart from painting falling off the wall.
latexr · 4h ago
How about waiting over a decade and be getting a drink when it happens? Then waiting another decade and a technical problem preventing it from having been recorded.
in 1663 Scottish mathematician James Gregory figured out that you could figure out the distance between the Earth and the Sun by making measurements during the transit of Mercury or Venus across the Sun. You get much more accurate results with Venus, but the next transit of Venus wasn't predicted to be until 1761 and 1769.
In 1760 French mathematician Guillaume Le Gentil sailed from France to India to make observations of the transit, but due to weather and delays, he was still on the ship when summer 1761 arrived and he missed his chance to make his measurements. So he stayed in India for another 8 years. And then on the day of the 1769 transit, it was cloudy and he missed it again. So he went back to France where he found out he had long ago been declared dead, his possessions had been seized and his wife had married somebody else.
What was on your property is now on my property!
Straight borders might become crooked if they cross the crack though.
Does that mean Myanmar is now an active zone?
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And of course, the earthquake energy source is many magnitudes larger and much, much further away, deep in the crust, with the wavefront already having passed through miles of solid rock. We measure blasts from at most a few hundred meters away.
Metres of movement would definitely be significant for a lot of mapping use cases. This is why the time component of any coordinate measurement is important, both due to earthquakes as well as plain old plate motion.
https://nautil.us/what-happens-to-google-maps-when-tectonic-...
It's the video of the fault line itself fracturing that's so interesting.
We know where the fault lines are, so we generally avoid building anything major near them because... well earthquakes. Hence no other videos of actual fault line fractures (vs general street ones).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment#Universi...
in 1663 Scottish mathematician James Gregory figured out that you could figure out the distance between the Earth and the Sun by making measurements during the transit of Mercury or Venus across the Sun. You get much more accurate results with Venus, but the next transit of Venus wasn't predicted to be until 1761 and 1769.
In 1760 French mathematician Guillaume Le Gentil sailed from France to India to make observations of the transit, but due to weather and delays, he was still on the ship when summer 1761 arrived and he missed his chance to make his measurements. So he stayed in India for another 8 years. And then on the day of the 1769 transit, it was cloudy and he missed it again. So he went back to France where he found out he had long ago been declared dead, his possessions had been seized and his wife had married somebody else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDSM-CtYzxY&t=5m29s