On March 28, 2025, at 12:50:52 PM local time in Myanmar, a powerful earthquake with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.7 struck near Mandalay in Upper Myanmar. The quake lasted approximately 85 seconds, with an epicenter at latitude 21.996ºN and longitude 95.926ºE, at a shallow depth o...
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Research Article10.9734/acri/2025/v25i61291
The first earthquake of magnitude 4.8 struck at 57 km south of Kyaing Tong, latitude 21.1141°N longitude 99.850°E, on 21st July 2022, at 16:40:08 UTC ( 11:07 a.m. local time ) at the depth of 10 km. Immediately after 30 minutes on the same day of 21st July 2022, the second earthq...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2022/v19i3413
Most of the historical earthquakes and recent seismicity in Myanmar indicate that earthquake occurrences are closely associated with major fault zones of two different structural trends in N-S direction and NW-SE direction. Series of pull-apart basins along the Burma plate both i...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2022/v18i130303
Myanmar is an earthquake-prone country in SE Asia and all types of faulting such as strike-slip, normal, and reverse are occurring all over Myanmar territory. Apart from surface faults, the India oceanic plate is subducting obliquely beneath Burma continental plate along Sunda su...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v16i230244
This present paper is a part of a book on terranes of Myanmar which was published in Myanmar, 2013. The name is Tectonic Style and Deformation Pattern of Terranes in Myanmar. It is based on Tectonostratigraphic Terranes Analysis. There are six sections with relevant figures, maps...
The 2000 km long, and approximately 200 km wide elongated tectonic zone in Myanmar has been wedged between the northward moving India plate on the west and southeasterly extruding Indochina plate on the east. The tectonic setting between these moving rigid plates and the highly o...
An earthquake with magnitude 5.9 occurred in the east of Falam on 16th April, 2020 at 11:45:23 (UTC). The epicenter is situated at latitude 22.789°N, longitude 94.025°E, 38 km ESE of Falam, at the depth of 10 km. Focal mechanism solution for this event is normal faulting (USGS)....
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i1530717