Extremely Rare Video Shows the Earth Being Violently Torn Apart During an Earthquake

Extremely Rare Video Shows the Earth Being Violently Torn Apart During an Earthquake This looks absolutely terrifying. First of Its Kind A striking video captured in Myanmar during March's devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake shows what scientists believe may be a first-of-its-kind recording of a surface fault rupture, the visible point where the ground over a major faultline splits apart, in action. The video, which went viral on Reddit earlier this week, shows the moment as the Earth begins to quake. A gate flies open as cracks emerge in the cement of what appears to be a driveway; a massive fissure appears in the ground beyond the gate, and the right half of the visible landscape slides backwards. Dust rises as the ground continues to move and stretch in the distance. According to Live Science, the recording was captured at the Green Power Energy Solar Project in Tha Pyay Wa, Mandalay, a solar energy power plant. "To my knowledge," Rick Aster, a geophysicist at Colorado State ... Read full article.