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Bimaterial effect and favorable energy ratio enabled supershear rupture in the 2025 Mandalay earthquake.
Liuwei Xu, Lingsen Meng, Zhang Yunjun, Yanchen Yang, Yidi Wang, Changyang Hu, Huihui Weng, Wenbin Xu, Elizabeth Su, Chen Ji
Published: 202510.1126/science.ady6100
Abstract
Joint seismic and geodetic analyses revealed that the 2025 moment magnitude (Mw) 7.8 Mandalay, Myanmar, earthquake ruptured ~510 km of the Sagaing fault, with a sustained supershear rupture extending ~450 km on the southern branch. Far-field Mach wav…
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