Satellite images reveal 500 km rupture in Myanmar
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, April 05 2025:
New high-resolution satellite imagery released by Maxar, a US-based space tech company, has revealed extensive surface rupture from last week's powerful Mw 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar, showing a fault rupture stretching approximately 500 kilometres with horizontal displacements of up to 5 meters.
The rupture is most prominent near the zone of maximum surface displacement, which lies close to Mandalay.
Satellite-derived maps indicate significant horizontal displacements in both east-west and north-south directions.
The rupture passes within a few hundred metres of the international airports at Mandalay and Naypyidaw, with both sites experiencing around 5 metres of slip.
The fault ends abruptly in the north, near the Irrawaddy River, while the southern termination is more gradual, extending further than earlier estimates - likely ending just west of Penwegon.
The displacement maps were generated through multi-pair feature tracking using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and a custom version of the GIV software.