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Asperities on the Sagaing Fault and 2025 Mw 7.7 Mandalay, Myanmar Earthquake.

ChadhaRK,AroraK.

JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA

https://doi.org/10.17491/jgsi/2026/174375 

28 March 2025 M. 7.7 Myanmar Earthquake broke a geometrically complex asperity on Sagaing Fault in Mandalay
Aftershocks and modelling suggest it as Supershear earthquake
Our proposed model suggest rupture transition to supershear speed over a fault step-over width on Sagaing fault
Activated dormant Meiktila segment of Sagaing fault

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