Shocking Video Shows Earth Tearing Open During Myanmar’s Earthquake in March

The camera points toward the gated entrance of a property and a long concrete driveway. About eight seconds in, the metal gate begins to vibrate, and then everything starts to shake. The gate flies open, a distant transmission tower buckles—and the whole right side of the scene slides forward. The footage dates back to March 28 of this year, when Myanmar experienced a magnitude 7.7 earthquake and several aftershocks that claimed over 3,600 victims and caused thousands of injuries. While the epicenter was near the city of Mandalay, people as far as Bangkok, Thailand’s capital, felt the powerful shaking. The video captures a ground or surface rupture—when an earthquake tears the Earth right up to the surface—and it might be the first of its kind. On Sunday, Singaporean engineer Htin Aung posted the video on Facebook, where the channel 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive picked it up and republished it on YouTube. “This is the first (and currently only) known instance of a fault line motion ... Read full article.