Whoa. A security cam in Myanmar captured an earthquake fault rupture live. This may be the first ever caught on camera?
Watch the fence-line on the right. And note the power-line tower behind it.
👀
More on earthquake ruptures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_rupture
My favorite thing about having posted this, is that SO many people chimed in with “did you see ___ in there?” And I did not.
It’s like crowd-sourced observation. 😉
Y’all are rad.
@markwyner If you look at the buildings to the LEFT, you can see what looks like a rain barrel on the roof fall to the ground and splash water everywhere, as well as the small blue shack get twisted and collapse
@malcircuit That’s on the left for me. But I see it now! I hadn’t previously. Mercy.
May 12, 2025, 9:22 PM@markwyner how is it opposite to you
@malcircuit by the way, I wasn’t making fun with that comment. I would hate to think it came across that way. That was my ADHD brain just making an observation. Please forgive me if I offended.
@markwyner lol no problem you're correct. I meant left but I had a brain fart lol
May 12, 2025, 11:43 PM@malcircuit @markwyner i just noticed the patio concrete also cracks
WOW! it's almost too weird to believe, but there it is...
@markwyner if you saw that in a movie you'd be like 'no room in budget to speak to an actual geologist, huh?'
@Iwillyeah 😂 facts.
@markwyner wow..
@markwyner, what tower? I see only a pylon (and a utility pole) over there.
@lp0_on_fire I see both. The terms are interchangeable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_tower
I’m not sure what you’re getting at here.
@markwyner Huh. I thought I was well over the Christchurch earthquakes, but watching that it turns out I was wrong.
@markwyner wild that the land decides "na I'm over here now" crazy clip that
Pretty cool.
And what a rapid slip—no wonder things shake like they do.
Never had the experience myself though.
Closest I've come is a few days in Denpasar before a rumble there a week or so after departure.
@markwyner holy shit thats a lot of movement
May 12, 2025, 10:52 PMMay 12, 2025, 11:45 PM@chu @markwyner what happens to the road and the houses now?
May 13, 2025, 12:19 AMBeing that close to the fault, I would question if the home is still structurally sound. You figure it probably moved enough to destabilize the foundation. My guess is you gotta send some teams through and some might need to come down, sadly.
May 13, 2025, 12:38 AM@chu @markwyner that’s what i thought. that driveway cracked so easily, am going to wager that house’s foundation is questionably shallow and thin.
May 12, 2025, 10:58 PM@markwyner That's what I think my Geology teacher would call a strike-slip fault. Probably a lousy place to build further buildings, may wanna leave that spot as open wilderness.
May 12, 2025, 11:12 PM@markwyner wow! That's wild!
May 12, 2025, 11:19 PM@markwyner it's like a planetary scale rubix sphere!
Driveway will need some sealing.
@markwyner holy mother of god 😳
@markwyner That's amazing. To actually see across the fault and see the other side moving. I'm impressed at how gracefully the power line tower collapsed, I suppose the lines kept it from toppling.
@markwyner If you look close through the gate, you can see the sidewalk do a perfect split
It's like half the landscape is just leaving the train station...
@markwyner
The ground should not move.
The ground should not move!
The ground should not move?
The ground, please don't move.
:ablobcatcry:
🤯🤯🤯🤯
@markwyner the crust is 10s of miles DEEP and the plates are 1000s of miles wide. the surface of the earth is mere tissue paper compared to the forces and movements involved!
May 13, 2025, 12:31 AM@markwyner that's so fucked i don't like the ground moving like that no siree
We are utterly dwarfed by the forces in this universe.
@markwyner “Secondary prefabricated cabin 2”. Sturdy cabin, given how stable these recordings are!
This would make land surveys and property lines interesting. A house that now on the wrong property...
@dianea I was actually thinking about property lines. Small thing, but interesting that it could just change like that.
@markwyner I've watched this several times. Resolution is terrible, and the amount of things that are going on ... impressive.
@markwyner @dusk this is super cool! Woooo
@markwyner That pylon was not prepared at all.
@markwyner @ai6yr in case you hadn't already seen this
@pixelpusher220 @markwyner Yeah, that's something else!!
@markwyner it looks like the left side with our camera is lifted above the right side of the rapture during the slide. That's really interesting!
May 13, 2025, 7:32 AM@markwyner Yoinks. Time to update the property register. That map is no longer correct 😬
May 13, 2025, 7:53 AM@markwyner So I got curious and looked this up. Apparently the popular principle for updating property register maps after a earthquake rupture is "boundaries-moved", i.e. your property line moves with your fence even if that fence has gone that way a couple meters.
https://ltsa.ca/our-stories/earthquakes-and-the-cadastral-fabric/
@yngmar that’s wild. I’m gonna queue this up to read. Thanks for sharing the info.
the incredible amount of FORCE need for that. bonkers.
@markwyner Wow!!!
May 13, 2025, 6:09 PM@markwyner
Great way to put that!
@markwyner That's just WOW!
@markwyner wow!
@markwyner in France we have https://www.vulcania.com which is pretty cool to learn what an earthquake feels like when you live somewhere where there is almost none, and my parents loved getting us there. So my brain was more "indeed quite impressive!" with your video and less than "this trickery is impossible"
@luciledt outstanding. I’d love to be able to experience that.
I was once in an earthquake, but it was small. I saw the utility poles outside swaying and the floor was moving like a trampoline. This was a newer steel-construction building. It was surreal.
I can’t imagine what an intense one feels like.
Looks like a compound from #cyberpunk2077
I expected V to storm that thing and kill all Saka-Robots.
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