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 · 1h 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 · 33m ago
It sure would suck to lose half your property to the earth suddenly saying screw you.
MichaelZuo · 16m ago
You could lose all your property, without compensation too, if your unlucky enough to have a big enough meteorite crash into it.
whycome · 12m ago
Or be native
mc32 · 6m 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.
cibyr · 8h ago
So many autoplaying videos on the page, and none of them are the video that the article is about.
PSA: it's easy to miss on the first watch because the big action happens in the background behind the gate.
wizardforhire · 7h 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 · 5h 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.
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?
ranger_danger · 9h ago
Isn't this news several months old?
schobi · 6h ago
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
ofalkaed · 5h ago
Quadrennial myopia.
andrewflnr · 9h ago
It seems like the analysis is the new part.
netbioserror · 9h 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 · 9h ago
in/s? Inches per second, or something else? One inch per second is the speed of an excited snail.
Aachen · 1h ago
Must be inches per second because 1–10 of those is 0.025–0.25 m/s so that matches the parentheses
csours · 8h ago
in soil, not air.
card_zero · 8h ago
Yikes, I see.
moomoo11 · 8h ago
Silly question but how does this affect mapping software? Or is the movement insignificant that it doesn’t matter
praptak · 7h 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 · 9h 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 · 4h 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 · 2h 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.
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?
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.
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...