Reuters has created a visualization using data from the United States Geological Survey to illustrate the long history of powerful earthquakes along Myanmar’s Sagaing Fault. It shows all magnitude 6+ quakes since 1900 as orange circles, scaled by strength, and marks the recent March 28 magnitude 7.7 quake in brown. By layering past and present seismic activity over fault lines, the map makes clear how densely clustered and persistent strong earthquakes have been along this boundary, highlighting the Sagaing Fault as a long-standing and active seismic threat.
Visualizing the History of Earthquakes in Myanmar
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