7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia

[chummer]

Devastating earthquake hits Myanmar and Thailand, thousands feared dead and missing. The images coming out of there are heart breaking-

https://twitter.com/user/status/1905613073634697219

https://twitter.com/user/status/1905861531897565291

https://twitter.com/user/status/1905634049105801582

[Snuffleupagus]

Brutal, sadly this type of tragedy will happen every year or so as long as people continue to populate along fault lines.

I posted this 2 years ago after the Turkey-Syria earthquake, if you're thinking about moving don't move anywhere close to any of these lines.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

Brutal, sadly this type of tragedy will happen every year or so as long as people continue to populate along fault lines.

I posted this 2 years ago after the Turkey-Syria earthquake, if you're thinking about moving don't move anywhere close to any of these lines.

I had no idea the new flames arena was going to be located so far south.

[WideReceiver]

We’re heading to Japan next week and I’m in some Tokyo and Japan groups. Many people are worried that Mt. Fuji may erupt while they’re there. If you don’t hear from me after awhile, I may be dead.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by chummer

https://twitter.com/user/status/1905634049105801582

That's an old video from Japan.

[Harry Lime]

Originally Posted by WideReceiver

We’re heading to Japan next week and I’m in some Tokyo and Japan groups. Many people are worried that Mt. Fuji may erupt while they’re there. If you don’t hear from me after awhile, I may be dead.

Can you do me a favour, and if Fuji blows up while you are there, grab a plate of titanium and surf the lava flow like you're in a John Carpenter movie?

Thanks.

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by WideReceiver

We’re heading to Japan next week and I’m in some Tokyo and Japan groups. Many people are worried that Mt. Fuji may erupt while they’re there. If you don’t hear from me after awhile, I may be dead.

lol, all because the government updated guidelines on what do in that scenario, and people think that means the government thinks the of an eruption risk increased. People are dumb.

[Itse]

Originally Posted by chummer

Devastating earthquake hits Myanmar and Thailand, thousands feared dead and missing. The images coming out of there are heart breaking-

https://twitter.com/user/status/1905613073634697219

https://twitter.com/user/status/1905861531897565291

https://twitter.com/user/status/1905634049105801582

I'm sure the long ongoing civil war in Myanmar pairs well with the devastation of an earthquake

[icarus]

I have many friends in Bangkok and I spend a lot of time there. Almost all of my friends posted Instagram stories of the cracks in the walls of their apartments. This is a huge city and it's going to take a long time for all the structural engineers to assess each building. Some of my friends can't sleep well because all of their homes are cracked now.

[Locke]

[MRCboicgy]

I was reading the USGS summary about this one, and - if I understand it right - instead of having a true epicenter, it was really a 200 km by 20 km slip
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqua...pn9s/executive

[TherapyforGlencross]

Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

I was reading the USGS summary about this one, and - if I understand it right - instead of having a true epicenter, it was really a 200 km by 20 km slip
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqua...pn9s/executive

This is common on strike slip faults. In simplicity, this is a horizontal displacement. Epicentres are usually referring to above the focus which in this case is above the horizontal displacement. It’s just explaining how it’s a large but shallow earthquake.