{"681701":{"#nid":"681701","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Myanmar just had \u2018the big one.\u2019 It should be a wake-up call for California.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs the effects of the earthquake in Myanmar continue to be uncovered, scientists say the hazard of this tremor is comparable to a potential event along the San Andreas Fault in the western United States - which many say is also overdue for an earthquake.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EComputer models can simulate the extent of such a large earthquake, but researchers say Friday\u0027s catastrophe revealed new insights on what to expect. For one, the Myanmar earthquake was probably a supershear event - when shaking is stronger than expected for a particular earthquake, said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESupershear events are rare and not fully understood. Scientists have found growing evidence that they usually occur on long, mature strike-slip faults, such as the Sagaing or San Andreas faults. But they don\u0027t know the exact conditions that may cause a rupture to trigger such extreme shaking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EPeng said that by examining what conditions caused this in Myanmar, \u0022it informs our understanding of similar potential events, for example, on the San Andres Fault.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs the effects of the earthquake in Myanmar continue to be uncovered, scientists say the hazard of this tremor is comparable to a potential event along the San Andreas Fault in the western United States - which many say is also overdue for an earthquake.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EComputer models can simulate the extent of such a large earthquake, but researchers say Friday\u0027s catastrophe revealed new insights on what to expect. For one, the Myanmar earthquake was probably a supershear event - when shaking is stronger than expected for a particular earthquake, said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESupershear events are rare and not fully understood. Scientists have found growing evidence that they usually occur on long, mature strike-slip faults, such as the Sagaing or San Andreas faults. But they don\u0027t know the exact conditions that may cause a rupture to trigger such extreme shaking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EPeng said that by examining what conditions caused this in Myanmar, \u0022it informs our understanding of similar potential events, for example, on the San Andres Fault.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-04-09 19:15:16","changed_gmt":"2025-04-10 14:47:17","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Washington Post","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2025\/04\/01\/myanmar-earthquake-san-andreas-fault-similarities\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"7115","name":"Myanmar"},{"id":"5770","name":"Earthquake"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}